Orwell gives us an overview of how language can be used to limit thinking and shape consciousness - under a Marxist type regime, i.e., secularized Abrahamism.
But controlling thought cannot only be accomplished by criminalizing some words, or erasing words to eliminate the cocnepts….it can also take a more insidious path, currently underway.
Language can be warped, so that the mind is not aware that something is occurring, or something is prohibited, rising his interest.
Gradual erosion of words and their meanings can accomplish the same outcome.
Words/symbols can be detached from their external, objective, references, so as to convert them to ideological constructs - make them subjective.
The process will not be resisted by the average dolt, because this detachment is experiences as a relief - an escape, from an indifferent threatening reality that offers only challenges, insults and brutality.
Mediocre minds will embrace this new application of words, as salvation from the unyielding and uncaring physical world.
Over time they may even forget the original use and application of the words they are using. Language will be idealized and converted to obscurantism and occultism.
See how they corrupted the word ‘god’, or how they are currently attempting to do the same with the words ‘male/female’, or ‘race’.
Morality has been given a similar treatment.
It has become a word that can either remain universal morality, ro immorality - either/or is the binary dualities of the nihilistic paradigm.
If it is not absolute one, then it must be absolutely nil; if the will is not absolutely free, then it must be absolutely un-free, a slave.
Herd psychology. Stoicism as the only reaction to a state of absolue slavishness.
The absolute need not be named ‘god’ but may acquire a new branding and named ‘oneness’ ‘whole’, ‘order’…with the right degree of pseudo-intellectual scientific lingo to make it seem like it is a new product - updated and improved nihilism.
The anthropomorphic imagery has been ‘overcome’, Now the same concept is entirely abstract, so as to be more globally seductive.