Comments on: Reinventing Newspeak – The Fatal Error at the Heart of The Little Blue Book http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Adeela http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/#comment-86480 Adeela Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:31:36 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10778#comment-86480 The review on the Little Blue Book is one filled with sort of negative connotations,but is not it politic same thing?! Instructions on how to ignore your opponent’s moral reasoning it is inevitably provoking intolerance and closed-mindness, so what is the new hue in the picture of how a politic works and the way that our politicians operate?!

]]> By: tarran http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/#comment-86349 tarran Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:15:21 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10778#comment-86349 Seerak, I considered the idea that the book was crafted on purpose to prevent the reader from listening, but decided not to make that assertion because it seemed a bridge too far.

I decided to take their explanations at face value.

But, as has been pointed out by others, there is a strong element of group-think-enforcement permeating this book, and I would be very unsurprised if that was done on purpose.

]]> By: Brendan http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/#comment-86338 Brendan Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:49:01 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10778#comment-86338 http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2012/07/09/the-little-blue-book-quotations-from-chairman-lakoff/

]]> By: MingoV http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/#comment-86337 MingoV Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:37:04 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10778#comment-86337 The progressives/left wingers reverse meanings continually. That’s why the word liberal today means almost the opposite of what it meant in the 19th century. Another great example is the left wingers’ confusing substitution of color labels (blue vs. red) for the traditional left wing vs. right wing. The left wing always had been portrayed as red to pink. The USA mass media (mostly left wingers) strongly supported the use of blue vs. red, and one rarely hears or reads about left vs. right. Now, the left wingers have their own “Little Blue Book” to dress-up their flaky beliefs with misused language and altered word meanings. (I wonder how many of them recognize the homage to Mao’s “Little Red Book?” Mao used the same principle of misusing language: his Cultural Revolution was all about destroying the educated individuals who supported China’s culture.)

]]> By: tkc http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/#comment-86334 tkc Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:47:57 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10778#comment-86334 “Yet Democrats have too often failed to use language linking their moral values with their policies. The Little Blue Book demonstrates how to make that connection clearly and forcefully…”

Yet the name of the book conjures up one of the 20th century’s worst atrocities.

]]> By: Seerak http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/#comment-86324 Seerak Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:09:29 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10778#comment-86324 The fatal error in this blog post is misconstruing the Little Blue Book’s core feature as a bug, or “error”.

The complete sabotage of rational discourse is the end-of-road of Leftist epistemology. When persuasion is no longer practical, all that remains is faith, and force.

]]> By: tkc http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/#comment-86323 tkc Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:20:39 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10778#comment-86323 OMG! In keeping with the Obama complaint that ATMs cost banking tellers their jobs the Kindle version costs more than the paperback version.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!

And it is bundled with ‘The Communist’ for $25. I can’t stop laughing.

]]> By: tkc http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/07/30/reinventing-newspeak-the-fatal-error-at-the-heart-of-the-little-blue-book/#comment-86321 tkc Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:28:48 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=10778#comment-86321 Michael Barone on the subject:
“Liberals can protect themselves better against assaults from outside their cocoon. They can stay out of megachurches and make sure their remote controls never click on Fox News. They can stay off the AM radio dial so they will never hear Rush Limbaugh.

The problem is that this leaves them unprepared to make the best case for their side in public debate. They are too often not aware of holes in arguments that sound plausible when bandied between confreres entirely disposed to agree.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/24/cocooned_liberals_are_unprepared_for_political_debate_114255.html

This Blue Book thing reinforces ‘cocooning’ and will be bad thing for the left.

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