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It is "a valid synecdoche" only as long as we accept that doublethink and newspeak are desirable. Sure, calling black — "white", dictatorship — "worldwide democ
by krick 4y ago
It is "a valid synecdoche" only as long as we accept that doublethink and newspeak are desirable. Sure, calling black — "white", dictatorship — "worldwide democracy" and so on… everyone will adjust. And by "will" I mean "already do and always did" — there's nothing new about this, it's just the "truths" we are supposed to believe in are what changes over the centuries, not the way societies work. Perhaps it's even true that there is no other way (which doesn't make me like it any more).
So it's totally true that no one is actually mislead by this, but I absolutely understand those who try to pretend they are, and have a slight disdain for those who try to defend this bullshit.
- ajkjk 4y agoI... uh... it's a normal phrase. Dunno know what to tell you. You're not gonna get a lot of takers on this being "bullshit". Feels like you're mad about something big and taking it out on random irrelevant things. There's maybe an argument to be made that using language which implies the legitimacy of organizations as presenting "all of us" is a sort of supremacist way to act, because it casually legitimizes whoever happens to be in power without questioning where they got that power or whether they earned or deserve it. But, like, it's a standards body. If the world didn't have one it would want to go and make one and then be back where we started. This isn't the interesting battlefield for that kind of point.