The deployment of clever linguistic tricks has created a hostile upside-down universe, where even the vaccine-injured are tarnished as "anti-vaxxers" or liars rather than acknowledged as ex-vaxxers who took risks that turned out to be life-changing.
Psychological and
linguistic manipulation are, for those in power, proven tools for building, consolidating and
maintaining dominance — a reality
keenly depicted in George Orwell's never-more-relevant novel, "
1984."
As
phrased by master propagandist Edward Bernays, an approximate contemporary of Orwell's, the mind of the people "is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion."
Recent events surrounding
COVID vaccines have shown that medicine and public health — with the help of a
complicit media — are particularly skilled at "pull[ing] the wires which
control the public mind."
The clever bag of linguistic tricks deployed by the
medical cartel includes seeding evocative terms such as "vaccine hesitancy" and "lockdowns" (which is prison terminology) into popular and scientific discourse, forging slippery new definitions of words with formerly fixed meanings (such as "pandemic," "herd immunity" and "vaccine"), and circling failed products back around by giving them the positive spin of "boosters."
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