Most everyone has heard the meme, "He who controls the agenda controls the meeting." Acknowledging that we can understand ultimate power would be controlling the words and language everyone uses lest they find socially or professionally ostracized.

When it comes to thought control, everyone should read or reread George Orwell's 1984 as an essential marker of the dangers of an all-powerful state. In 2025, 1984 is no longer required reading in most schools, and you should ask yourself the question why? Even a cursory reading of 1984 would make many uncomfortable with the parallels to everyday life. A friend told me, "They are afraid students would recognize they already live in Orwell's world."

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Newspeak was the official language of Orwell's Oceania, the stage upon which Orwell told his story. Newspeak turned our language upside down "to make all other modes of thought impossible" and "to make any thought of diverging from the principles of the government unthinkable."

False and misleading language is Orwellian Doublespeak, allowing murderous thugs like Adolph Hitler to disguise mass murder behind boring bureaucratic terms. (Example: "Evakuierung" (evacuation) was used as a euphemism for death and deportation to concentration camps.) This same manipulation of language was a key part of how Stalin and other 20th century tyrants used language to control people's lives and, eventually, life itself.

What too few people realize is that, during the Obama and Biden years, the same thing happened in America, as leftists relentlessly seized control over American language and, through it, American thought. They rejected entirely Confucian wisdom for, when Confucius was asked what he would do if he were a governor, he said he would "rectify the names" to make words correspond to reality.

When our government removes social media posts that differ from government policy or suppresses speech by arbitrarily deeming it hate speech, we begin to look quite like Orwell's fictional Oceania. But that's just a start. All kinds of behavior and thought are being restricted, manipulated, or banned through the left's terms of engagement; that is, the language they use. Just take a look at a small subset of intentionally manipulative words and metaphors here:

A common thread runs through all attempts to control speech: de facto control of your freedom of choice. How patently absurd for someone else to insist you use their language, phrases, and false metaphors. The epitome of hubris is the assumption that what someone manifests out of thin air should become the law of the land, if not in fact, then in practice.