– Language of the 21st Century

‘Without the right to question, what remains is indoctrination.’

​by Trevor Poulton

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' (Poulton neologism) can be used to identify controls over free speech. 

Trevor Poulton has created aphorisms that crtique including the following:-

• Freedom of speech means allowing others to have a say.
• Guilt trip + Public Atonement = Political Correctness
• Privacy has Gone – at least Secure Free Speech. Think about it.

 is language that endorses “cancel culture,” and enforces speech codes

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Devised to supress words that may give rise to controversial thoughts or ideas Orwell's 'Newspeak' is a form of language that is already accounted for in literature and philosophical circles illuminating the danger of control of use of language and
formulated vocabulary for that purpose.


Imposed in a totalitarian state with no freedom of expression

 

    'Through the light of second-hand book shops
      (Extract from a chapter of Trevor Poulton's novel The Holocaust Denier)

Constable Ward Price found his way to a second-hand bookshop that had elongated rooms with leadlight alcoves. He approached the book dealer who was wearing a worn-out tweed coat and had a powdery beard that looked like it was tainted with mildew. 
‘Do you have anything published on National Socialism, but written prior to World War 2? Nothing after World War2, thanks.’
‘Try at the far back, top shelf under Pre-War.’ 
Ward hauled a ladder down an aisle. Ascending the shop on the wings of the blue-winged shoveler, he conducted an aerial survey. It felt like he was flying over plateaus of knowledge and values and ideas, but it was a sombre vision.
He could see Australian history built on pillars of optimism decaying there on the flat pine shelves, crumbling sections on Greek art and Roman architecture, redundant sciences in a heap on the floor, the Great Saints blocked by the suddenness of a ceiling rose, epic twentieth century wars bound in tattered jackets, philosophy and ethics slumming it in a corner. Left wing and right wing books of truth tipped over like tombstones, banned or no longer taught at universities.
Pivoting on the rung of the ladder, he turned to face the shelf stocked with the criminal writings he was to investigate. There was a humble row of around ten titles lodged beneath the ceiling cornice. One immediately stood out ...