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By Richard Fernandez
February 8, 2013
Victor Davis Hansons essay, The New Age of Falsity, vividly describes the new requirement of the modern age. It is the requirement to lie.
The requirement is imposed by the circumstance that many institutions are already built on falsehoods. In order to keep things ticking even honest newcomers must resort to the maintenance lie which can be defined as the affirmation of legacy falsehoods to prevent an institutional meltdown. This is without taking into account what can be called the capital investment lies, which are entirely new fibs uttered for the purpose of usurping new powers.
Hanson convincingly argues that meanings in public discourse are now routinely reversed in the Orwellian sense simply to keep it self consistent. For either the lie must be contradicted by the truth or all the truths must be perverted to match.
Minitrue, Minipax, Miniplenty, and Miniluv (Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Love, respectively all ministries of the active government in Nineteen Eighty-Four are upon us. The system can no longer survive without a systematic inversion of the truth. To his credit, defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel is holding back from making the capital investment lie by refusing to detail foreign funders and disclose other necessary financial information to the Senate Armed Services Committee. He was asked to provide it. He refused.
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Belmont Club » The Dorner Manifesto
February 8, 2013
Victor Davis Hansons essay, The New Age of Falsity, vividly describes the new requirement of the modern age. It is the requirement to lie.
The requirement is imposed by the circumstance that many institutions are already built on falsehoods. In order to keep things ticking even honest newcomers must resort to the maintenance lie which can be defined as the affirmation of legacy falsehoods to prevent an institutional meltdown. This is without taking into account what can be called the capital investment lies, which are entirely new fibs uttered for the purpose of usurping new powers.
Hanson convincingly argues that meanings in public discourse are now routinely reversed in the Orwellian sense simply to keep it self consistent. For either the lie must be contradicted by the truth or all the truths must be perverted to match.
We live in an age of falsity, in which words have lost their meanings and concepts are reinvented as the situation demands. The United States is in a jobless recovery even if that phrase largely disappeared from the American lexicon about 2004. Good news somehow must follow from a rising unemployment rate, which itself underrepresents the actual percentage of Americans long out of work.
At the same time, we are supposed to be relieved that we are in a contracting expansion, where fewer goods and services are proof of a resilient economy. In our debt-ridden revival, borrowing $1 trillion each year is evidence that we dont have a spending problem
. Minitrue, Minipax, Miniplenty, and Miniluv (Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Love, respectively all ministries of the active government in Nineteen Eighty-Four are upon us. The system can no longer survive without a systematic inversion of the truth. To his credit, defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel is holding back from making the capital investment lie by refusing to detail foreign funders and disclose other necessary financial information to the Senate Armed Services Committee. He was asked to provide it. He refused.
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Belmont Club » The Dorner Manifesto