Orwell And The Modern BBC

 

The Principles of BBC NewsSpeak

 

 

 

‘What is important is not what the creator

of an idea of genius may mean, but what this idea

becomes in the mouth of whomever transmits it.’

Adolf Hitler

 

　

 

The principles are whatever the BBC says they are.

 

BBC NewsSpeak is the official language of the Liberal Elite and has been devised to meet the ideological needs of PolCoPS, or Politically Correct Progressive Socialism. In the year 2007 there is not as yet many who use BBC NewsSpeak as their sole means of communication, either in speech or writing. The leading stories in the BBC News, and articles in the Guardian and Independent are written in it, but this is a tour de force which can only be carried out by dedicated specialists such as James Naughtie, Polly Toynbee and Simon Jenkins. It is expected that BBC NewsSpeak will finally supersede the Plain and Simple Speak (or standard English, as we would call it) by about the year 2030. Meanwhile it gains ground steadily, all in the BBC Political Party and fellow travellers tend to use BBC NewsSpeak words and grammatical constructions more and more in their broadcasts, political articles and in the cafe culture of Primrose Hill and Nottinghill Gate.

 

The purpose of BBC NewsSpeak is not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Progressive Socialism, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. Divergence from the principles of a Progressive Socialist Society would be literally unthinkable, at least as far as thought is dependent on words. It’s vocabulary is so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a BBC Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. For example the word free still exists in BBC NewsSpeak but can only exist in such statements as ‘This dog is free of lice’. It could not be used in it’s old sense of ‘politically free’ or ‘intellectually free’ since political and intellectual freedom no longer exists even as a concept. The Party does your thinking for you, Aunty knows best.

 

BBC NewsSpeak is designed not to extend your knowledge or range of thought but to diminish it.

 

All BBC NewsSpeak words are deliberately constructed for political purposes: words, that is to say, not only have in every case a political implication, but are intended to impose a desirable mental attitude upon the person using them. Many are a verbal shorthand, often packing whole ranges of ideas into a few syllables, and at the same time expressing those ideas more accurately and forcefully than ordinary language. To take a single example: Whitemale, meaning ‘racist thug who has historically oppressed and exploited the world’. Conversely BRITISHMuslim would be used to indicate someone ‘oppressed and discriminated against by Whitemale, ignored and demeaned by a Whitemale dominated Establishment, and therefore justified in murders driven by social and economic deprivation imposed on them by an uncaring society’.

 

A typical BBC NewsSpeak sentence such as BRITISHMuslims bellyfeel Jihad Blair would in Plain and Simple Speak be rendered as ‘Muslims, who are very definitely British and therefore it is all the more surprising and shocking that they feel so desperate. These feelings of outrage are an indictment and condemnation of Blair‘s foreign policies, and it is imperative that we understand the problems that produce this anger and why this anger will be expressed in the form of violence against the State and non-Muslims should the vaunted Democratic process not give them a proper voice and the respect and consideration they feel they are due. Bombs can be part of the Democratic Process, understandable and justifiable if you are unemployed or perceive yourself as oppressed by virtue of your religion or skin colour’.

 

To grasp the full meaning of the BBC NewsSpeak sentence you have to have a clear idea of what is meant by PolCoPS. And in addition, only a person thoroughly grounded in PolCoPS could appreciate the full force of the word bellyfeel, which implies a blind, fundamentalist and enthusiastic acceptance difficult to imagine in a world of the Whitemale which is inextricably mixed up with the idea of wickedness and decadence.

 

As with the word free, words which had once borne a heretical meaning are sometimes retained for the sake of convenience, but only with the undesirable meanings purged out of them. Countless other words such as honour, justice, morality, internationalism, democracy, science and christianity have simply ceased to exist. A few blanket words covered them, and, in covering them, abolished them. All words grouping themselves round the concepts of liberty, equality and democracy are contained in the single word bushthink, whilst all words grouping themselves round the concepts of objectivity, rationalism and impartiality are contained in the single word relativethink. Greater precision would be dangerous, leading to broadening of thought and giving rise to ideas that might challenge the New Orthodoxy. In BBC NewsSpeak it is seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words cease to exist.

 

Some words display a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of the Liberal Elite’s Progressive Society. An example is prolefeed, meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the BBC Party hands out to the masses.

 

The BBC Party is a Progressive Socialist entity imbued with morals and principles which it promotes and defends relentlessly and with unbounded zeal, Guardians of Truth and Social Justice. If it is necessary to tell convenient lies or to twist the truth in order to defend truth then so be it, in the name of the Greater Good. The benefit of mankind is a long term project that will materialise only by conscious effort and will of the intelligentsia who take on the mantle, the self-imposed responsibility, of representing the less fortunate, the less intellectually endowed members of society that is the obligation of the privileged placed in a position of leadership by reason of their natural ability, application, devotion to duty and the will to create a just and civil society. A selfless and dedicated group, who are prepared to immerse themselves deep into the world of filth, lies and black propaganda that sully their souls in order that lesser men may live in peace, harmony and blissful ignorance of the battles being fought on their behalf.

Ironically in this society created and nurtured by the BBC Party those who have the best knowledge of what is happening and the power to influence events are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. In general the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

 

The name of every organisation, or body of people, or doctrine, or country, or institution, or public building is invariably cut down into the familiar shape, that is a single easily pronounced word with the smallest number of syllables that would preserve the original derivation. This was not done with the sole objective of saving time. In the early decades of the twentieth century telescoped words and phrases were characteristic of political language.

 

It can be noticed that the tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian countries and totalitarian organisations. Examples were such words as Nazi, Gestapo, Comintern, Agitprop, Tory and lately Neo-con. The BBC Party endorses these words and the use of Neo-con and Tory are especially favoured, even more so if juxtaposed with Nazi, Gestapo or Fascist. Neo-con can be seen as an attempt to link an undesirable political dogma with the Nazis by the use of ‘Neo’ whilst ‘Con’ clearly has its own bad connotations. Shortening a word also shortens its meaning, limiting peoples scope for expanding what it might represent. Neo-con is easily spat out, a word which is easily recognised and limited in purpose and meaning, though no one can actually give a definition of what it is to be a Neo-con, everybody knows it doesn’t have good associations and these associations are carefully nurtured and built upon by the BBC Party ensuring no one would admit to having Neo-con thoughts.

 

Another purpose of the clipping of words is to induce unmistakable meaning which can be uttered rapidly and which will rouse the minimum of echoes in the speaker’s mind, to make speech independent of conscience.

Ultimately the intention is to make articulate speech without involving the higher brain areas at all. This aim has been frankly admitted by the BBC Party word ’duckspeak’, meaning to ‘quack like a duck’. BBC NewsSpeak readers will begin using this form of articulation once the Liberal education reforms are felt to be having the desired effect. Dictionaries are available now from Her ex-Majesty’s Stationers and as a download from BBC digitprop. They are available in Arabic, Chinese and all other languages except English which has of course been declassified and recognised as an imperialist language used to oppress and colonise culturally other indigenous populations around the world. BBC NewsSpeak in the form of ’duckspeak’ is to replace all other languages eventually so that we may live in peaceful co-existence and mutual respect. Simplified language with fewer chances to be misunderstood, fewer political thoughts and hence fewer possibilities of conflict. No talking, no reasoning, no discussion, no debate and you cannot be ‘conflicted’. The BBC NewsSpeak Revolution brings Resolution to World hostilities. An end to ‘difference’.

 

This is well under way with the Left gradually morphing into the Right, a phenomenon that began with the Stalinists of the 1930’s adopting the state sponsored violence of the Fascists with outspoken support of the western intellectuals who in an early example of doublethink managed to endorse mass murder and political tyranny whilst praising the humanitarian principles of the executioners. This peculiar linking together of opposites – knowledge with ignorance; cynicism with fanaticism- is a distinguishing feature of BBC Party and Liberal-Leftist ideology. In the modern age the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism, and at the same time lends fervent support to Fascist dictators. It preaches a contempt for the working class, it systematically undermines the solidarity of the family, it considers Democracy a ‘Sacred Thing’ but something too precious for the people to exercise freely, they may vote in ways that are clearly abhorrent to right, that is to say Left, thinking persons. Even the name of it’s governing body, the BBC Trust, exhibits a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts. The BBC Trust being the body that conceals the lies of the BBC behind a mask of virtue, not an ordinary hypocrisy but a deliberate exercise in doublethink.

From the foregoing account it will be seen that in BBC NewsSpeak the expression of unorthodox opinions is well-nigh impossible. It is possible to utter heresies of a very crude kind, a species of blasphemy, such as Liberty, Egality and Fraternity; but such statements and concepts could not be sustained by reasoned argument, because the necessary words are no longer available. With the passage of time and new Acts of Parliament as directed by the BBC Committee for the Moral Good, ‘Plain and Simple Speak’ will die out to be replaced by the new orthodoxy as children will know of no other world and the last link with the past is severed. The mutability of the past is the central tenet of the BBC Party. If you control the past you control the future; if you control the present you control the past. Past events, it is argued have no objective existence and since the Party has full control of all records and is in equally full control of the minds of its adherents, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses it to be. If it is necessary for Party members to rearrange their memories or to tamper with written or film records then it is necessary for them to forget that they have done so in order for the truth to be realised. This technique in Plain and Simple Speak is called reality control, in BBC NewsSpeak it is called doublethink. This is the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The process of manufacturing the new truth is a conscious one to be carried out with precision but also unconscious to circumvent feelings of falsity and hence guilt.

 

The essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies whilst genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies.

 

History has already been rewritten by the Liberal Left. Pre-60’s literature, institutions, traditions and culture are subject to disdainspeak. The pre-revolutionary history can only be read subject to ideological interpretation, alteration in sense as well as language.

Take for example the well known passage from the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute a new Government…..

 

….It is impossible to render this into BBC NewsSpeak without losing the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the word crimethink.

 

　

With apologies to Eric Blair, father of the Neo-con movement and heroic namesake of his chief Apostle, Anthony.