Newspeak

For anyone that has read the book 1984, they know the definition of newspeak. For those of you that don’t know, newspeak is the transformation of a language into the governments molding and complete control. The idea is that if the government can control/manipulate how much a person can communicate with his fellow comrades, there would be no uprising or free thinking.

I understand that languages are constantly changing. Just by reading a verse from a King James Bible, I can see that we speak much differently today. I may just be “old school”, but it seems as if we are adopting some newspeak. Did you know that the word “capitalist” did not always mean “greedy, heartless, selfish pig?” Definitions of once, well defined words, now have a completely different meanings.

When some people think “capitalist”, their minds automatically think of the crooks on Wall Street. Let me tell you now, because I have not heard it anywhere else: “THE THIEVES OF WALL STREET ARE NOT CAPITALISTS!” Bernie Madoff is NOT a capitalist. Ken Lay is NOT a capitalist. Bernard Ebbers is NOT a capitalist. Capitalism respects the private property of others. Stealing from people, even if it is through corporate fraud, is not capitalism. It is easy for people to relate capitalism to large corporations, since, in a way, that is the American Dream.

Capitalism stands on three pillars: individualism, free markets and private property. No, thievery is not one of the pillars. This corporate power over the government is a step back from capitalism, back to the mercantilist days of a half century ago.

There is no “perfect” economic system. There will never be a perfect economic system but we cannot fix these present problems by taking steps backwards. Every day, Americans are being spoon fed the idea that “socialism is the key”. “No one deserves to be sick, let’s universalize health care!” In philosophy it is called: ‘an appeal to pity’. We are being told that by not wanting universal health care, we are greedy, we are selfish, we are capitalists.

Newspeak? Don’t let it fool you. Do not be ashamed of the beliefs America was built on. If only there was one moral person in the government that was not in it for power, one person that could lead our country back to sanity. But to expect that person to exist in the American government is a bit too much to ask.