Jocko Podcast - 263: DO NOT Take Freedom For Granted. We HAVE TO Preserve it.

Episode Date: January 6, 2021

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This is Jocko podcast number 263 with Echo Charles and me Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. And this podcast is brought to you by you. That's right. This podcast exists because of your support. And I've always dreaded having to say the words this podcast is brought to you by whatever. But we don't say that.

And we're not going to say that. that we're here and we're able to do we do because you support us in a bunch of different ways and we own what we have here and we don't rely on any companies to sponsor what we're doing which is nice I mean other than the companies that we actually own and the companies that we own make the stuff that we actually use to do the things that we like to do and listen it is a harder road to take to harder road to take you can go that eat you can go you can go like just get that money and there's been times some people that are on this podcast right now have sort of petitioned for that kind of thing a little bit right well right well and that's you know legitimately because it's it's

it's it's a much harder move to try and build companies invest in your companies and run the supply chain and the personnel and deal with all the finances and the taxes and the thousands of things that you got to do to make a business run and that's okay just did what guess what it takes work takes hard work it takes discipline because it's a grind but at the end of the day guess what that discipline gives us freedom gives us freedom freedom the freedom to talk about whatever we want the freedom to talk for five hours without having to take a break to mention some company. We don't have to do any of that and we can make like I said we can make the podcast as long as we want as we want we can do whatever we want we got the

freedom to do that we have the freedom to do that because we also have freedom of speech which with the with the incredible foresight and intention is the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. The first amendment is Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and a petition the government for a redress of grievances. So there you go. The government shall make no law to abridge freedom of speech. Doesn't get any clearer than that but it does get a little muddier than that in in modern times right they didn't have

podcasts back in the day that I'm aware of so as smart as the founding fathers were and as well as the Constitution has held up as a document well there's been there's interesting things going on right now interesting things going on right now and in some ways it's troubling because you see you can see speech being controlled you can see speech being censored you can see meanings the way speech is being used being manipulated you can see words the meaning of words being changed and and we've seen this before throughout history and one of the best examples of this it's a very clear example and it's one I talked about with

Jordan Peterson and when Jordan was on you weren't there the second or third time that Jordan came on you weren't there But we and it's actually happened with every time He's come on we've had some I've had some plan about what we're gonna talk about we don't talk about any of that we talk about something completely different So so on that one we were gonna talk about the gulag archipelago and by by Solshinitzen and we did cover this one thing that I I really wanted to talk about about it because I think it's important it's it's it's a it's an example of the way language drives thought and policy and so it's one word it's the word is Kulak and the what that word originally meant was former sort of workers or peasants that had become wealthy right so this person's a Kulak right they were in the lower class

and they moved up. And then over time, it became a little bit more pejorative, meaning it had a, it started to take on a negative connotation. So eventually it became Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag archipelago. He says, quote, a kulak sort of became to represent a miserly dishonest rural trader who grows rich, not through his own labor, but through someone else. So it's got a negative connotation. But he says about those Kulaks at the time that there wasn't that many of them.

In fact, he says that they could be numbered on one's fingers. So there's a very small number of these kind of bad people that had made money and kind of made money off the backs of others. Well, as the revolution went on, the communist revolution went on, circa like 1915, 1916, 1917, the meaning of the word started to encompass more, more people. It started to, and this is again, this is from social nitsyn. It started to include people, all those who in any way hired workers, even if it was only when they were temporarily short of working hands in their own families. So you had something that used to just mean someone that had kind of risen up and made it

out of the lower class into the middle class. Then it became someone that made it to the middle class, but they did it in a bad way. And now it's, hey, anybody that's sort of, anybody that's hired another person is a Kuulak. By the 1930s, Solshinitson, he says that the word was used to, quote, describe all strong peasants in general. Peasants strong in management, strong in work,

or even strong merely in conveyor. So you can see this word which used to just represent a very small number of people all of a sudden it starts to represent more and more people if you have anyone working for you and and eventually an official decree comes out from the government It releases an official definition of what a Kuulak is and and by that definition a Ku Klak was any person who used hired labor owned a mill, a creamery processing equipment, or a, quote, complex machine with a motor, systematically rented out agricultural equipment or facilities or was involved in trade, money lending, commercial brokerage, or other sources of non-labor income. And this last definition made it so that anyone that sold surplus goods. So if you had extra stuff and you sold it, you were a Kulak.

So now we're basically now talking, if you had a yard sale, right? So now we're basically talking about everyone. And then the government set out to destroy the Kulaks and thereby destroy the strength of the peasantry. And the communist started a program called deculacization. We're going to get rid of them. the people that were identified as Kulax, which again, now there's a ton of them. They were ordered to give their farm animals,

their livestock to government authorities. So now we're taking property. Many of them, and many of the Kulax at this time are like, okay, well, then I'm going to kill my livestock and, you know, keep the meat and use the hides. And then when they tried to kill the livestock instead of giving them up, the communist made a new law, which made it possible.

to prosecute people for the malicious slaughtering of livestock. This is, isn't it just, you see these steps going and it gets worse and worse. But that's still, still left a little bit to, a little bit, you could still maybe move through that. You could still probably get away with it. So then Stalin decreed in order to oust the Kulax as a class, the resistance of this class must be smashed in open battle and it must be deprived of the productive sources of its existence and development that is in turn towards the policy of eliminating the Kulax as a

class. We're going to get rid of all of them. And by the way, look at who we're talking about. We're talking about people that we're talking about the people that had stepped up and made things happen, right? People that owned machinery, people that owned a mill, people that ran businesses. That's who they're talking about. Well, guess what? When you do that, when you get rid of the that own farm equipment and farms and livestock guess what happens you run out of food you don't have anyone making food anymore and this leads to starvation and and when you get starvation now you get people that are hungry now you get people now you get kind of a mob rule thing going on and this is a very horrible thing to think

about if you weren't starving if you weren't starving or your family wasn't starving Well, how could you not be starving? You would not be starving if you had food. If you had food, guess what you were? You're a cuck. That's what you are. So what does mob rule look like when it is approved by the government or it's ignored by the government?

What does it look like? There's a description, an author named Robert Conquest. He wrote a book called Reflections of a Ravaged Century. And this is a description from that book, which is actually from a Russian journalist, Grossman, who said that the party activists who helped the state political directorate, the secret police, also known as the GPU, with arrests and deportations, quote, were all people who knew one another well and knew their victims. But in carrying out this task, task, they became dazed, stupefeworthy.

They would threaten people with guns as if they were under a spell calling small children Kulak bastards screaming blood suckers. They had sold themselves on the idea that so-called Kulaks were pariahs, untouchables, vermin. They would not sit down at a parasite's table. The Kulak child was loathsome. The young Kulak girl was lower than a louse. Scenario the book goes on to quote a guy named Lev Copa Lev a party activist so this guy was in the in the communist game who eventually became a dissident and he said it was

is excruciating to see and hear all of this and even worse to take part in it and I persuaded myself Explained to myself I mustn't give in to debilitating pity This is what he's telling himself look I can't have any pity. We were realizing historical necessity. We were performing our revolutionary duty. We were obtaining grain for the socialist fatherland for the five-year plan. So, Stalin ends up ordering the Kulaks to be liquidated as a class, which in turn causes the Soviet famine in 1932 and 1933. That results in at least three million dead. Socialism said six million one point eight million were sent to labor colonies

Only 1.3 million ever actually made it to the labor colonies Another half a million of them just disappeared gone look we don't even know what happened but obviously didn't turn out good for them and then you have the rest of the nightmare of of the Soviet disaster and and and you can pull that thread and you get to this language you get to language an attack on language on what you say on what people say or what people don't say or what people are allowed to say or what people are forced to say because our words they make our thoughts we think in words and and we have

to keep our words free, to keep our minds free. And I thought that we learned this. And if it wasn't obvious enough, obvious enough from watching what happened in the Soviet Union, then when you read 1984 by George Orwell, by George Orwell, you said, oh, okay, yeah, okay, yeah, got it. Didn't he spell it out for us? If you've ever read that book,

and at least when I went through high school, you had to read that book. and at some point At some point I'm sure I will cover the whole book on the podcast But without even talking about the plot Just talking about the world That he paints in this

In this book The book is you know It was written in the whatever 1947 I think and But it's about 1984 And you've got this Omnipresent government You've got surveillance everywhere

Everyone's heard that big brother Do you remember Remember reading 1984? No. No. So it's a futuristic time. Everything is controlled by the government. You've heard Big Brothers watching you, right?

Yes, sir. That's where it comes from. There's a show called Big Brother. Oh, okay. Is it about a dystopian future? No, sir, it is not. What's it about? It's a reality show that everyone lives in this like house.

But here's the thing, though. It's dystopian? It's not dystopian. Well, I guess. Is there thought control? No, but there's cameras in every single room. Why don't they let me run a reality TV program? I think it's pretty clear why.

But yeah, so they go around in the house and there's cameras like mounted cameras in all the rooms, like surveillance cameras essentially. And you can like tune in on off times and stuff and just watch them. Like you could do that like you could go on a website and just watch the people in the house. Yeah, like they, I think they used to play it on like Showtime where it's like Big Brother Live and you can just tune in and watch them do nothing. Like, dude, normal everyday stuff. But here's the thing. Now that's totally common, right? Because through the internet, you can just do that.

There's people doing that right now. Screening or streaming their, whatever, they're doing their homework. I saw something about, I think it was a Japanese dude who would, like, do his homework. And he was getting, he would have millions of people watching him. He was super organized. I'll give it up for him. If I remember, correct me. Could you see the content of his homework?

He was, that's different. It was like there was multiple camera views. You know, you could kind of see what he was reading. You could see what he was working on. Yeah. And that's what he did. He did his homework or something like that. Okay, so that makes sense.

If it was just a picture of him doing his homework, you couldn't see the homework. That's different. That's weird. But if you can see what homework he's doing, oh, yeah, that's good. Why is that? Why are you more? I'm not interested in his homework at all. Well, I mean, pretty much.

I'm not into video games either, but, bro, you can watch people live streaming their screen and a little corner of them, their face, playing, just playing video games or whatever. And this is. is like multi-million. There's hundreds of people that watch those. Hundreds of millions per minute watching that stuff.

But it's different because Big Brother is like them doing normal stuff all day, all night. That's the Big Brother Live. But they have a voice in there too. Can it give directions? It says, hey, you're breaking this rule. Who makes the rules?

The show or whatever. Are the rules tyrannical in any way? No. It's a game show at the end of the day. It's like it lasts like a few months or whatever. I don't know how long. And they, you know,

they have little challenges. How do you defeat the opponents? In challenges. So you can fight them. Yeah. And then you have a vote and it's like, you know, it's a thing.

All right. Well, that term big brother comes from 1984. There's surveillance watching you all the time. There's perpetual war going on. There's historical negation, which, which is when you falsify history or you distort history.

And there's a bunch of just really, I was going to say cool quotes, but they're not cool. They're actually horrible quotes, but they're, they really capture what the book is about. And there's one saying in the book, who controls the past,

controls the future, who controls the present, controls the past. All these sayings in there, when you read them, you go, ech, there's thought police who are,

tracking people for committing thought crimes. There's people who commit thought crimes who and they or they don't tow the party line. They don't they don't they don't they don't tow the party line and if you don't tow the party line or if you commit fought crimes you become an un-person meaning you just disappear and all evidence that you ever existed is destroyed you are gone you become an unperson you get erased you get erased you get canceled right sounds familiar right so you get canceled then they then this is crazy in 1984 in the book there's something called the prole feed short for the proletariat feed which is a steady unending stream of minding

endless entertainment, which is produced to distract and occupy the minds of the masses. Does that sound familiar at all? Yeah. So you can spend all this time distracted and wasting and being just mindlessly entertained. Yeah. It sounds like that video game scenario. It sounds like the thing you got in your pocket. Yeah.

Which, by the way, it gets even scarier. They have something called a telescreen. The telescreen, you watch it, and it watches you. Kind of like your phone, which is tracking where you are, identifying what you're watching. Like, it's what your phone is watching you as much as you're watching it. Right. This is factual. There's a word, there's a word called up sub, which means you submit to the higher authority.

It's viewed in like a positive way. And then all these words, all these words are framed on a new evolving language, which is called new speak. So we have a new way of speaking. It's called new speak. The old way of speaking is called old speak. That's English. That's the English language is called old speak. New speak is what we're talking now.

And they got a bunch of, they got a bunch of these words. And we're going to get into the language of it. But if you add plus as a prefix to any word, it strengthens the word. So good is good. Excellent. They get rid of the word excellent. They say plus good. Because they're trying to limit the vocabulary of people.

And people have old think. If people have old think, they have ideas or they have memories that are prior to the revolution. So this is, right? This is scary to think about. And I know we don't normally talk. much about you know current events really on this podcast because there's enough because there's enough of that filling everyone's parole feed every single day without us chiming in I mean you you you you got prole feed coming at you 24 7

thousand different angles and so you know I'm not we don't spend a bunch of time talking about what what happened in the last you know 12 hour news cycle but you know the other day when we were talking to cowboy Cowboy Khan the Vietnamese sock soldier. He gave me a little warning that I had to pays him attention to. He was saying, you know, you got to watch out for communism. And I kind of, you know, I kind of brushed it off and said, well, you know, we're a strong country. We're rooted in freedom or something like that.

And, you know, it's in our blood and we'll remain free. And he kind of just said, be careful because he had seen it take over in Vietnam. And I mean, you want to talk, you look at the history of the Vietnamese people, you want to talk about rooted in freedom. Like that country is legit. They do not get, they do not take easy to occupiers. It's in their blood, freedom. And look what happened. And it happens slowly.

And you can see in this, like in the Soviet Union, one thing that, Happens is it part of it starts with speech starts with banning words starts with changing the meaning of words and that's what happens in in the book 1984 and There's all kinds of quotes in this book and they're they're just eerie They're eerie when you hear them and you Think about the context of the world right now here I I plucked out some of the, some of the quotes. If all others accepted the lie, which the party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became the truth.

How about this one? We know that no one ever sees his power with the intention of relinquishing it. Here's one. The ideal setup by the party was something huge, terrible, and glittering, a world of steel and concrete of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons a nation of warriors and fanatics marching forward in perfect unity all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans perpetually working fighting triumphing per triumphing persecuting 300 million people all with the same face here's another interesting one how could you make appeal to the future when not a

A trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper could physically survive. Another section, every record has been destroyed or falsified. Every book rewritten. Every picture has been repainted. Every statue in street building has been renamed. Every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.

Nothing exists except an endless present in which. which the party is always right. Another one, never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling? Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love or friendship or joy of living or laughter or curiosity or courage or integrity? You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

and this book is just filled with these eerie, eerie statements. But in the end of the book, the main character, Winston, he finally breaks. Like he's resistant through the book and he's trying to maintain some level of humanity and individuality. In the end, he breaks. And it finishes up by saying, but he was all right. But it was all right. Everything was all right.

The struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. Very, very depressing. It's very depressing when the human spirit is broken. And it's even more depressing when the human spirit is broken en masse, which is what this book portrays. And George Orwell does a great job.

This whole, this whole, this whole explanation and this, trick and this this thing that he does with language is very powerful and it's calculated and it's deliberate which is which is which is the way it happens and like I said one day I'm sure I'll cover this whole book but tonight I just I just wanted to cover one part of the book one part of the book that I want to dive into so so George Orwell wrote the book and he's got a very interesting past I mean, he had a, he's a very interesting guy. And the reason I say that is because he's not just some academic that sat in a ivory tower somewhere. He had a lot of experience in life.

He had been a policeman in India. He had, he had fought in the Spanish revolution. He'd been shot in the neck. So, I mean, this guy is not, this guy is not just a, you know, just some. person that's read a bunch of books and is an academic. No, he's, he's, he's been out there in the world. But he, he wrote, so in this book, at the end of the book, he's got this appendix to the book. And the appendix at the end of the book is about this language.

It's about this language, new speak. And in a way, it might be the most important message in the book, or at least, maybe it's not the most important message in the book, but it's at least, It's at least it's the least appreciated message in the book and that and that's why I want to read some excerpts from that because This part of the book really starts to make you Think makes me think anyways about where we are about what we have to be careful of So the appendix is written this appendix that I'm talking about that we're gonna jump into it's written almost as like an academic assessment of the new speak language So sometime in the future, beyond, okay, in the book, sometime in the future of this book, some academic type person is writing about like a historical review of this language.

Because you can tell when reading it that the totalitarian state that this takes place in didn't work, right? At some point failed. It failed to really maintain the control and suppress the human spirit. So that's a positive sign, right? Even though they got Winston, some people stood up against it and they were able to fight it off. And now you get this person, this person writing this sort of historical documentation about this language. And you can kind of see he kind of indicates that that one of the reasons maybe that the that the totalitarian government wasn't able to maintain control. It was because they couldn't get full control of the language.

and it's very interesting, very interesting to go through. So here we go. 1984 by George Orwell, and we're jumping, we're skipping the entire novel, partly because I think most people have read it. I hope. But I want to jump into this appendix. So here we go. Newspeak was the official language of Oceana.

That's the totalitarian state. and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsock, which Ingsoc is an abbreviated term for English socialism. In the year 1984, there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication, either in speech or writing. The leading articles, so at the point that this book was written, At the point when 1984, in 1984 in this world, no one was fully speaking Newspeak yet. That's why you could read it.

That's why you could read these words. They hadn't gotten the new language to where they wanted it to be. The leading article in the Times were written in it, but this was a tort of force that could only be carried out by a specialist. So only like people that were really fluent in Newspeak could write the headlines. It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak, or standard English, as we should call it, by the year 2050. Meanwhile, it gained ground steadily, all party members tending to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more in their speech every day. The version in use in 1984 and embodied in the 9th and 10th editions of the New Speak dictionary was a provisional one and contained many superfluous words and archaic formation. formations which were due to be suppressed later.

It is in the final perfected version as embodied in the 11th edition of the dictionary that we are concerned here. So this is talking about something that you don't get to see in the book, which is the final kind of version of Newspeak, what they wanted it to be. The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the worldview and mental habits proper to the devotees of English. but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that Newspeak had been adopted once and for all, that old speak would be

forgotten. And a heterical thought, that is a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsock, should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as it is dependent onwards. So there was going to be, you couldn't, you couldn't commit a thought crime. anymore because you wouldn't have the capability of expressing what it was. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a party member could properly wish, properly wish to express while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. So you can even use like multiple words to figure out how to say something that wasn't on board with the party. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words

and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatsoever. To give a single example, the word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as, this dog is free from lice or this field is free from weeds it could not be used in the old sense of politically free or intellectually free since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts and were therefore of necessity nameless couldn't even think of it you couldn't even think of being free the concept didn't exist anymore they eliminate The word quite apart from the suppression of Definitely heretical words reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself and no word that could be dispensed with

Was allowed to survive Newspeak was designed not to extend but to but diminish the range of thought And this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum Scary right? Yeah Interesting. Newspeak was founded on the English language, as we now know it. Though many Newspeak sentences, even when not containing newly created words, would be barely intelligible to an English speaker of our own day. Newspeak words were divided into three distinct classes known as the A vocabulary,

the B vocabulary, and the C vocabulary. It will be simpler to discuss each class separately, but the grammatical peculiarities of the language can be dealt with in the section devoted to the A-cat vocabulary since the rules held good for all three categories. So this is the A-vocabulary. The A-vocabulary. The A-vocabulary consisted of the words needed for the business of everyday life. For such things as eating, drinking, working, putting on one's clothes, going up and downstairs,

riding in vehicles, gardening, cooking, and the like. It was composed almost entirely of words that we already possess, Words like hit, run, dog, tree, sugar, house, field. But in comparison with present-day English, vocabulary, their number was extremely small while their meanings were far more rigidly defined. All ambiguities and shades of meaning had been purged out of them. So far as it could be achieved, a Newspeak word of this class was simply a staccato sound expressing one,

clearly understood concept. It would have been quite impossible to use the A vocabulary for literary purposes or for political or philosophical discussions. It was intended only to express simple, prepulsive thoughts, usually involving concrete objects or physical actions. So the general populace can't even carry on a political debate or a philosophical discussion because they just don't even have the vocabulary for it. They just can't even have it. They just can't even have it. So we're just, we're just shutting it down. The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities.

The first was almost a complete interchangeability between different parts of speech. Any word in the language, in principle, this applied to even very abstract words, such as if or when, could be used as a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb. Between the verb and the noun form, when they were of the same root, There was never any variation. This rule of itself involving the destruction of many archaic forms. The word thought, for example, did not exist in Newspeak. Its place was taken by think, which did the duty for both noun and verb.

No etymological principle was followed here. In some cases, it was the original noun that was chosen for retention. In other cases, it was the verb. Even where a noun and verb of kindred meaning were not etymologically, connected, one or the other of them was frequently suppressed. There was, for example, no such word for cut. It's meaning being sufficiently covered by the noun verb knife. So can you knife me a piece of cake?

Adjectives were formed by adding the suffix full to the noun verb and adverbs by adding wise. Thus, for example, speedful meant rapid and speedwise meant quickly. Certain of our present day adjectives such as good, strong, big, black, soft were retained, but their total number was very small. There was little need for them since almost any adjectival meaning could be arrived at by adding full to a noun verb. None of these now existing adverbs was retained, except very few already ending in wise the wise termination was invariable the word well for example was replaced by good wise in addition any word this applied in principle to every word in the language could be negatived by adding the aphix un or could be strengthened by the aphix plus or for still greater emphasis

double plus. Dang. So, for example, uncold, uncold, meant warm. As opposed to uncool. There's no word for cool. Yeah, I'm just saying in real life,

there's a word called uncool. And the short version is uns. On Kauai, that's what it is. He's called uns? Yeah, but it's not the temperature cool. It's you being cool or uncool. Uncool. And uns.

Un's is like just short for it So if I'm walking behind you I trip your foot That's uns I'm pretty on's yeah And yeah actually you know what It's more used for stuff that's like More uns than that It's like so it's a little bit more of a

Severe phrase severe yes I think so in my experience that's how to like If I if I trip you And you fall and it's in front of some people That's pretty uns If you spill your beverage on your I was going to say shirt But we're probably not wearing a shirt

since we're in Hawaii. No, very rarely. Yeah. If you do it on purpose, it's on shirt or no shirt, I think. But actually, you know what? Now they think it's essentially the same thing. Yeah. Except the plus part.

I guess if you replace it with very, because there's like plus plus plus, right? Yeah. If you say that's very cool. Well, no, there's double plus. Double plus cold meant very cold. Kind of efficient in a way. Wait.

So uncold meant warm. Plus cold and double plus cold meant very cold and superlatively called. Yeah, very, very cold. It was also possible in present-day English to modify the meaning of almost any word by prepositional affixes, such as anti-post-up-down.

By such methods, it was found possible to bring about an enormous diminution of vocabulary. Given, for instance, the word good. Yes, sir. There was no need for such a word as bad. Since the required meaning was equally well indeed better expressed by ungood.

I don't know. Seems like there could be a T-shirt possibility there. And I don't say that very often. But it seems like we've talked about good a fair amount, and we do have a T-shirt that does say good. Yeah. Might be kind of cool to have a T-shirt that said un-good. Maybe a picture of a Hawaiian getting tripped up on the beach.

That would be very un-good, yes. Uncool all that was necessary in any case where two words formatted a natural pair of opposites Was to decide which of them to suppress dark for example could be replaced by unlight or light by undark according to preference You get rid of one of those two words yeah Wait according to preference so they would just pick either We got light and dark we don't need both those words right so we pick one of them and then put on in front of it for the other one You know what's actually kind of scary if you let it be scary is like this whole thing is scary it kind of makes sense that's the scary part Well well no here you know where that side came from that side came from the fact that when I was when I was an English major

Oh yeah and look the English language there's there's things that are met they make no sense whatsoever Yeah like if you were a if you have an engineering mind right where you like you know the rules is the rule and you try and figure out how to do English, you're going to have a real hard time with it, man. Oh, yeah. And that makes sense because, bro, I get, you know, when I first got into whatever I got into, it was HTML.

Oh, we're talking computer languages. Yeah, hypertext, markup language, to be exact. Yeah, yeah, of course. And if you go deeper into the coding thing, you know, it's, that's straight up. Like, that is engineering mind. Right. Where it's like, bro, the computer's like,

hey, tell me what to do. I'll do it. But you better tell me the right thing. I don't know about tones. You tell me the words or the characters of whatever, and I'll do it. And you can tell them like accidentally the wrong thing. They're going to do that thing. That's exactly what a computer does.

So you better be specific. And if you're not specific, it simply either won't happen or it'll do the thing that you mistakenly were specific about. Yeah. That's a little something that we like to call operator error. Operator error. Meaning I messed up. You know, when the GPS is for,

came out when they first came out I was pretty I was my first reaction was like why do I need to carry that thing that thing weighs 25 pounds and they're like yeah and then they say well you know you'll know where you are and I go I have a map and compass I know exactly where I am yeah you know I've had the training I'm doing a terrain study I know where I'm at I have a map and compass I know I know I'm at yeah I mean it be like you know if do you need a GPS to get home right now. Me, no.

From here. No, sorry. That's how I felt. When they started telling me I needed a GPS in the field, I was kind of like, the exact same way you feel. I was like, why would I need this thing? It weighs 25 pounds. I have a map.

I have a compass. I know exactly where I am. I don't need anything else to help me. But there are some situations, you know, when you're out in the open ocean, there's no, there's nothing to get a bearing off of. There's nothing there. So when you're over the horizon, you can't shoot a bearing. Once you get closer to the shore, you can shoot a bearing, and you can figure out

where you are. In the open desert sometimes, too. There's nothing a shooty bearing off of that you can see. So sometimes you do need that GPS, but the early GPSes, they weren't that good. They took a long time to find themselves, but once they found themselves, then all of a sudden I realized, well, this thing is freaking super accurate. And sometimes people would get lost, right? You know, and then they'd blame the GPS.

The GPS. The GPS told me dying. Right. And I would say operator error. Yeah. That thing did not, you don't have the one GPS that took and changed the coordinates of earth. Right. Yeah.

That didn't happen. And sure enough, I'd pull it out and be like, oh, yeah, you missed a digit here. You added to, you know, you fat fingered the digit over here. And that's the problem. Oh, yeah. That, man, that's so true. So, like, in HTML as well, right? So it's essentially like, and you talk about your English major.

And, you know, how it's like, you can have a hard time. I took a class called advanced grammar and syntax. Yeah, yeah. So the reason that, okay, I'm not an, I'm not an English major, but I talk English to other people. And here's this little factor in English is one of the main differentiators between, like, the engineering situation and me talking to you situation. I can use, like, tones and all the stuff, my emotion and all this stuff or whatever.

And I can say, like, literally the wrong thing, but I can say, hey, you know what I mean, though. And you could probably say yes. There is that little soft wiggly room, you know? Or if I misspeak and say someone else's name, but you know I meant this other guy's name in a story or something like this. And I can be like, oh, you know what I mean. And you be like, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. That does not exist in HTML.

Yeah. You can't be like, you know, 55561, 55561, 5561, 5561, 556 and then maybe like a 2, you know. And then 556 and the thing's like, okay, too. that's on purpose, boom, let's execute that. That's what the machine does. Instead of like, all right, hey, did you mean 5, 5, 6,1 on this two here? And then, you know, like a person will think that, you know? Yeah.

I saw this thing one time. It was a guy trying to explain, like, about the piano and about what, what, how you play the piano good, basically. And so he plays a song, and he basically hit the notes like a machine. You know what I'm saying? Like, ding, ding, ding, ding. And it was some famous, you know, song on the piano. I don't know what it was, but some kind of like classical piano song.

But he plays it like a robot, basically just every key gets the same pressure and whatever. And then he plays it like a human. And it sounds really, really different. Yeah. So there's a lot that's going on. Which one was better, you think? Oh, the human one was way better. Yeah.

So, yeah. It's like this too. It's the same thing. guitar like you can get people that pluck the notes and they can pluck them perfectly but then you get you know Jimmy Page and he's he's bending them and yeah yeah wait in the wrong note bringing it back I mean yeah it's it's a human element there's a rawness to it yeah there's a rawness to it that's positive yeah it's like obviously millions of examples but like you have analog and

digital like even if you go film right if you go film there's little imperfections in there that make it kind of a softer of feel and then digital is kind of hard even though digital is getting so advanced where it's kind of incorporating that kind of stuff in that but cg i for example like if you look at early cg i you're like brother that's so lame because it's too perfect it's too like computer it looks like a video game almost right you forgot like all the light bouncing off of this thing that leaf over there and all the light spill from this color of this guy's shirt and all the imperfections all that stuff is all in play in real life and that's how like real life is you know and then but you try to recreate

it in a computer, especially one that's not as accurate as real life, which this is going to take a while. It's going to feel like a computer, you know? So I was listening to someone talking about making music. And it had to do with Jack White from the White Stripes. Sure. And basically, when you get a drummer, like nowadays, what they do. if you and I are going to make a record.

So here's what we do. You down? Here's what we do. We take the record. We record. We record a snare drum. Crack. And we record 30 cracks on the snare drum.

We take the perfect one. That sounds perfect. That's the snare. And then we take the high hat. And we get the perfect. We record 50 of them, 100 of them. We get the perfect one.

That sounds exactly the way we want it. And then we take that. And then we take that. And then we take that. And then we. take all the different drums, we find the perfect sounds. We're making a digital drum. It's a recording of a real drum, but it is, it's the same one.

It's a perfect shot, snare shot. And they take that and then they lay down the beat. And the beat is 1,000% accurate because it's computer, right? It's absolutely a perfect. Right, right. Just right on. It's right on every single time. And that right there, when you hear it, and that's what, when you hear like a pop

40 whatever like a pop 40 music that's what you're hearing you're hearing a sure you can be like oh yeah a person played that but it got played it they can also take the drum like if a drummer and they can line up his he was off by a half a millisecond cool it's all perfect now they line it all up they line it all up so you're hearing this what you said you're hearing this perfection yeah and there's a there's a there's a there's a a fakeness to it there's something that we don't like When you hear like for the white stripes, because we're talking about the white stripes or Jack White, he's doing things. You're like, oh, that was, he just did something wild, right? There's a human there.

Yeah. And that gives it this reality. Yeah. So there's a, we want to have that. You know, I want to have that. Did you think when I said what sounded the, when you said what sounded better, the mechanical piano playing sound or the human? Did you think I was going to say the mechanical sounding one? No.

You're just checking me? Yeah, that's one way to put it. Yeah, exactly. I wasn't checking you. I was like, you know how you can want to expose the example? It's kind of like that. Like, where, because you weren't making a point or were you? It didn't seem like you were making a point that one was necessarily better or worse.

You were just identifying what the difference. That's what it seemed like. I, yeah, right. You're right. I wasn't purposely making the point that one was better or worse. I thought that would be self-evident. And if you ever heard a robot play a piano, you would know that it was kind of self-executive. That sounds whack.

I don't know that I've ever heard. When I was a kid, they had like these pianos that had these pieces of paper, these rolls of paper that would go through. And it was basically some kind of a mechanical computer that told it what notes to play. Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember the self-playing piano. Yeah, self-playing piano. Yeah.

Huh. Old school self-playing piano. Yeah. Yeah, but I would think that that would still have this analog feel to it if it was physical paper. It had a little bit. It had more analog than a computer because guess what? The analog machine is like not perfect. It's still doing the work.

Yeah, exactly right. It's still that has to like hit the note in there. Yeah. It's just to hit that little thing has to hit the string. Yeah. And that's a mechanical thing. And all that is all right. Yeah, that's absolutely correct.

It's mechanical, not digital. Right. It's analog. I guess is what we're saying. Yeah. CGI is a big one again. Back to that, like,

you know, how they computer, and still, they don't have this down at all. I don't know. I mean, it's, they're getting good.

I don't, I don't think they're very even close to it yet, but, you know, they can recreate certain things digitally in CGI, like water and machines and light and all this stuff. And some of it, they have it straight up.

They have it down. But if you come to, when it comes to the human face, the human face, when it's not animated, it's good. It's pretty solid. They can get skin,

tones and reflections and transparency, all that stuff. But when they start talking, there's so many complexities in your face. And as a human being instinctually, we recognize them so deeply. We just, we're not even there. René. But aren't we improving our technology so rapidly that we'll get there a lot quicker than we've got to this point? I think so.

Yeah, I believe that is the case. But as of right now, you can get the best, best, best one when it's completely made from CJA, because now they get a real problem. person's face and they match this and match that. And even then, man, it's really hard. Unless it's like a super simple expression or a pause or something like that. But you get someone to talk, a CGI face to talk, no matter how good it is, it looks weird. It looks actually scary because it looks like, oh, are you trying to be a person? What about the deep fakes? Somebody just posted a deep fake of me. Yeah. So the deep fakes are a little bit different.

It was kind of cool. Oh, yeah. Those are kind of scary too, though. When you, when you think about it or whatever this I mean for different reasons obviously but yeah the deep fakes they take an actual face though it's not recreated digitally they take your actual face from a million or however many available representations of your face it actually exists they take that and then they match it up to another face so that's a different process but if you get a basically essentially a sculptor and a rigging it means like oh I'm gonna control this eyebrow and this eyelid and all this stuff you rig everything the

best best guys it's going to look like a weird like a weird monster and then there's a word for it the the fact that it's weird it's called the uncanny valley and it's like so it's this valley between the real deal recognizing it as the real deal and then a fake deal so the smaller the uncanny valley the more offsetting it is so if it's like a straight up robot face like remember the back like short circuit remember that that movie short circuit number five anyway but i did I did watch E.T. the other day with, I don't even, there's obviously no CGI in there, but man, I hadn't seen E.T. since I was 10 or whatever, eight or whatever it came out. I saw it in the theater. And, like, I remembered, like, this really good movie, you know, like, space and aliens. Have you watched it lately? No. I was, I was really kind of. No, I look, Stephen Spielberg. If you're out there, like, I get it, Brian. You were working with what you're. you had at the time all good Jaws is one of my favorite movies ever so I appreciate that 100%

but you know when I saw ET it was kind of it was definitely not what you know why wait what about it like the well for one thing this quote special effects right like ET looks like a like a doll that someone's moving around it's crazy to watch maybe his planet that's how they look you see him saying come at me but there is an actually actually an argument because they call that practical effects versus visual effects. So like practical effects is like the physical thing. Visual is like CGI. Right.

There's a big argument for practical effects. They should be dealt with that. I don't like practical effects. Yeah, I think we all do. But the uncanny valley thing, like ET even, for example, if it's so obviously not a person, it's not going to off put anybody. Everyone's going to be like, okay, cool, it's a non-person, whatever it is, robot, alien, whatever, but if it is a person,

but it's not exactly, exactly straight up a real person, everyone's going to be freaking weirded out by that thing. So to bring this back to what we're talking about, and believe it or not, this entire rabbit hole we just went down to, down is absolutely applicable to what we're talking about. Because what we're talking about is

we're talking about removing the ability for human beings to express themselves properly. We're removing that. ability and when we remove words from the language we're removing the ability for humans to to express themselves and therefore we are removing the ability to think and that is a scary thing yeah yeah it's like the the difference between you know when you take a test and there's all kinds of tests right so there's like if you go down the spectrum of tests there's like that the essay

question or the thesis really straight up thesis there's probably more comprehensive test than that but well thesis yeah then you got your essay question test then you got a multiple choice and then true false no actually there's a few before multiple choice because you got your um like hey what's this and you have to say the answer okay fill in the deaf fill in the deaf fill in the blanks sentence word whatever and you got your multiple choice right a bc d e all all the above You're above whatever. Then you got your true false.

Yeah. So now you got just straight binary now. True false. No room for freaking nuance. No nothing. You see what I'm saying? What test did you prefer the most? Well, depends.

Depends how old I was and what, you know, what the subject was for sure. If I didn't care, I just wanted the, uh, great, obviously the true false. Really? See, I always felt like I always felt like I had a little bit of. of better, you know, because maybe I wasn't, you know, when we're talking, we're talking, you know, teenage years, maybe I wasn't quite really doing much studying at that time.

So I could maybe write a better essay and fill in the blanks a little bit about what, you know, maybe there's a concept, because I was good, if I understood a concept, I could kind of run with it. Whereas true false, like, what happened on this date? I'd be like, because I didn't read, I didn't study it, you know? Yeah. Now when I went to college, I was like, bring it.

I was like, well, taste you, what kind of that you want to give me. Yeah, but a lot of those, so true, and I'm sure educators have a good grasp on why you would ever administer a true, false test versus, you know, any of the other ones. And I hope anyway, because, man, if you're doing like a history, true false,

like that's way more dangerous because of, like, how much nuance or in perspective. Like, if you go, okay, so my daughter will ask me questions and I'll always answer, and I told you this before, where I'll always answer with deep hands. Like what's your favorite color? Freaking depends. That's a good one.

Bro, my favorite color, what? Wearing stuff or my car? Or, bro, it's different, you know? Or not even necessarily, it is different. You just don't say black in color. It can be. Tiger stripe camo. Most actually, my favorite color actually is black and they know that.

But then she'll always probe me, be like, what's your favorite color? What's your favorite color? And then so it makes you think about it, you know? So I'm like black, but bro, I'm not going to wear like, black in certain circumstances, certain blacks, you know. So speaking of tests and speaking of language, because I'm over here just trying to reel things back into the subject, which is, you know, cool.

You got some opposing forces here. It depends. It depends. So check this out. When you, when you, when you went to college and you took, was there a possibility of taking a class where you wouldn't get graded by a letter, but you would either get through the class or not get through the class? Yeah.

What was that called? Pass, no pass. Okay. So when I was, because one of my daughters in college, they're like offering now since everything's online, you can take every class. She says, I can tell you know, she said they're telling us we could take every class pass no pass. Oh, that's like the option.

When I was a kid, know what it's called? Pass fail. Yeah. That's what it was in R's T. It was called pass fail. Yeah. Now it's called pass. No pass.

Right? Unpass, I guess. Yeah, unpass, right? Because we remove the word fail out of the vocabulary. Yeah, yeah, might mess with people's self-esteem, man. Yeah, that's a fail. There's your fail right there. All right, we're getting back to the book.

The second distinguishing mark of Newspeak grammar was its regularity. Subject to few exceptions which were mentioned below, all inflections followed the same rules. thus in all verbs the predorate and past participle were the same and ended in E.D. The predate of steel was steeled. The predatory of think was thinked and so on throughout the language. All such forms such as swam gave, brought, spoke, taken, being abolished. So you like this part because now it's all more uniformed.

The rules are all plurals were made by adding S's or E.S as the case might be. The plurals of man, ox, life were man's, ox's, lives. Comparison of adjectives was invariably made by adding ER or EST, good, gooder, goodest. Irregular forms and the more most formation being suppressed. So they got rid of, they got rid of more and most and just got good, gooder, goodest. The only class of words which were still allowed to inflect regularly were the pronouns, the relatives, the demonstrative adjectives, and the auxiliary verbs. All of these followed their ancient usage except that whom had been scrapped is unnecessary

and the shall should tenses had been dropped, all their use is being covered by will and wood. There were also certain irregularities in word formation arising out of the need for rapid and easy speech, A word that was difficult to utter was liable to be incorrectly heard, was held to be ipso facto a bad word. Occasionally, therefore, for the sake of euphony, euphony, extra letters were inserted into a word or an archaic formation was retained. But this was, but this need made itself felt chiefly in connection with the B vocabulary, why so great an importance was attached to ease of pronunciation.

will be made clear later in this essay. So one of their main purposes was to make these things easy to say and clear. We're trying to dumb everything down for society. Yeah. Yeah, like, you know how every once in a while you see like one of these little diagrams. And they say like, I don't know if they actually, I don't think they say this is proper. But the whole diagram implies that it's proper. So it's like very good

And then they say don't say very good Say it excellent Don't say whatever say that you know they like They tell you the actual word for very like don't see And it's in a weird way it almost seems like it's the opposite of that You know where if it's like hey yeah they're trying to expand your vocabulary Yeah it is the opposite like when you're in when you read a English paper in ninth grade And you say

the chicken that I ate last night was very, very, very dry. You get, check, you don't, you come up with a better word. Right. Don't just put another very on that thing to give it another level of goodness. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a beautiful thing. That's the way it should be. We should be, we should be, people should be learning more words. Our vocabulary should be growing. Yeah, you know what's interesting. is that... Very interesting.

Very interesting. Fascinating. What's the next word? We'll go fascinating. We'll go fascinating. Because, no, interesting kind of seemed ambiguous. Like, it's interesting in a good way or a bad way. True.

True. Fascinating is like, I'm, it's like wonderfully interesting. Okay. Is that what this is? No. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Certain levels.

Anyway. Even in slang, we have that, you know? Like, even like, I can think of an example. example strangely but you know like how slang like you'll have it like oh yeah you're a okay these are all swear words so I don't want to do that example but you can be like oh yeah he's cool or he's um whack whack or he's dope or he's what you know and there's all these escalating levels of slang yeah yeah yeah he's cool or you can say he's very cool or you can say he's like the beat he's knees i don't know i just made that up or whatever

I didn't make it up, but you know how like there's different slang words for different degrees of certain things. So even slang has an escalating hierarchy of words to explain things. Yeah, the expanded slang vocabulary exists as well. Now we get into the B vocabulary. The B vocabulary consisted of words which had been deliberately constructed for political purposes. Words, that is to say, which not only had every case, in every case,

a political implication, but were intended to impose a desirable mental attitude on the person using them without a full understanding of the principles of Ingsock. It was difficult to use these words correctly. In some cases, they could be translated into Oldspeak or even into words taken from a vocabulary, but this usually demanded a long paraphrase and always involved the loss of certain overtones. The B words were a sort of verbal shorthand, often packing whole ring. ranges of ideas into a few syllables and at the same time more accurate and forcible than ordinary language. The B words were in all cases compound words. They consisted of two or more

words or portions of words welded together in an easily pronunciable form. The resulting was always a noun verb and inflected according to the ordinary rules. To take a symbol example, the word the good think, meaning very roughly orthodoxy, or if one choose to regard it as a verb to think in an orthodox manner, this inflected as follows. Noun verb, good think, the past tense and past participle, good think, present participle, good thinking, adjective, good thinkful, and adverb, good think wise, verbal noun, good thinker. The B words were not constructed on any etymological plan.

The words of which they were made up could be parts of any speech, could be placed in any order and mutilated in any way, which made them easy to pronounce while indicating their derivatives. In the word crime think, thought crime, for instance, the think came second, whereas in Think poll, which was the Thought Police, it came first. And in the latter, the word police had lost its second syllable. because the great difficulty in making it sound good, irregular formations were commoner in the B vocabulary than the A vocabulary. For example, adjective forms of miniature, or sorry, mini true, mini packs, mini love were respectively the ministry of truth, many truthful, mini peaceful, many lovely simply because truthful, pactsful and lovely, loveful were slightly awkward to pronounce.

He went deep on this. Some of the B words had highly subtilized meetings, subtleized meetings, barely intelligible to anyone who had not mastered the language as a whole. Consider, for example, the typical sentence from a Times leading article as old think, old thinkers unbelly feel ing sock. The shortest rendering that could make this of, that could make, that one could make of this in Old Speak would be, Those whose ideas were formed before the revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the principles of English socialism.

So that whole sentence gets translated into old thinkers, unbelly-feel, ingsock. The greatest difficulty facing the compilers of the Newspeak dictionary was not to invent new words, but having invented them to make sure what they meant, to make sure, that is to say, what ranges of words they canceled because of, of their existence. If you made up a new word, it had to get rid of a bunch of other words. Yeah. We have already seen that in the case of the word free,

words which had once borne a heterical, a heretical meaning were sometimes retained for the sake of convenience, but only with the undesirable meanings purged out of them. Other words, such as honor, justice, morality, internationalism, democracy, science, and religion, had simply ceased to exist. A few blanket words covered them,

and in covering them abolished them. All words grouping themselves around the concepts of liberty and equality, for instance, were contained in the single word crime think, while all words grouping themselves around the concepts of objectivity and rationalism were contained

in the single word old think. that's really disturbing to think about just the fact that you take you get rid of the words and now how do we even you know how do you teach it to your kids greater precision would have been dangerous what was required in a party member

was an outlook similar to that of the ancient Hebrew who knew without knowing much else that all nations other than his own worshipped false gods he did not need to know that these gods were called Baal, Osiris, Moloch, and the like, probably the less he knew about them, the better for his orthodoxy.

That's a very cool explanation. He knew Jehovah and the Commandments of Jehovah. He knew, therefore, that all gods with other names or other attributes were false gods. In somewhat the same way, the party member knew what constituted right conduct and in exceedingly vague generalized terms he knew what kinds of departure from it were possible but you only know the right and everything else is just bad everything else is false everything else is a lie that's all you need to know no B word no word in the B vocabulary is ideologically neutral a great many name names were euphemisms words such words for instance as joy camp

which was a forced labor camp or mini packs which is the Ministry of War, which is the Ministry of Peace is what it was short for, but it really meant the ministry of war, meant almost the exact opposite of what they appeared to mean. Some words, on the other hand, displayed a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of Oceanic society. An example was parole feed, meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news, which the party handed out to the masses. Other words, again, were ambivalent, having the connotation good when applied to the party and bad when applied to its enemies. Good thinking, bad thing.

But in addition, there were great numbers of words which at first sight appeared to be mere abbreviations and which derive their ideological color, not from their meaning, but from their structure. It starts talking about in the Ministry of Truth, for example, the records department in which Winston Smith worked was called the rec dep. The fictional department was called the fict dep, the fict dep. teleprograms department was called the Teledep and so on this was not done solely with the object of saving time even in the early decades of the 20th

century telescoped words and phrases had been one of characteristic features of political language and it had been noticed that the tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarianism countries and totalitarian organizations examples were such words as Nazi Gestapo, common turn, adjiprop. In the beginning, the practice had been adopted as it were instinctively. But in Newspeak, it was used with a conscious purpose. It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name, one narrowed the subtlety,

altered and altered its meaning by cutting out most of the associations that would otherwise cling to it. That's very interesting. The words communist international, for instance, call up a composite picture of universal human brotherhood, red flags, barricades, Karl Marx, and the Paris Commune. The word common turn, on the other hand, suggests merely a tight-knit organization of well-defined body of doctrine. It refers to something almost as easily recognized and limited in purpose as a chair on table. I wonder why I use communism term instead of Nazis.

It seems like Nazis is the, like, national socialism. Those two words have their own meanings, you know, and, you know, you can attach a bunch of things to nationalism and socialism. But, you know, when you put those words together in short a Nazi, it doesn't get more obvious that we just made something different. And like he's saying, it makes it a tight group. It removes all the other things that can hang on to these words. In the same way, the associations called up by a word like mini true are fewer and more controllable than those called up by Ministry of Truth. This accounted for the habit, not only the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every word easily pronounceable. For the purposes of everyday life, it was no doubt necessary or sometimes necessary to reflect before speaking, but a party member.

a party member called upon to make a political or ethical judgment should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth bullets. His training fitted him to do this. The language gave him an almost foolproof instrument and the texture of the words and their harsh sound and certain willfulness, willful ugliness, which was in accord with the spirit of Ingsock assisted the process further. That little section there was like, remind me of what you see today when people just have their go-to terms. That's what they're going to throw, right?

They just have, they're just going to attack with the, the damn attack words. You know, like I'm coming at you, right? You just hear it. The buzzwords. That's what I was looking for. More like cliche. Yeah, but they're coming at you with the cliche. Oh, that guy's a commie.

That guy's a Nazi. You know, they got, they're just going to, you know, you're on the other side. Cool. You're a Nazi. Oh, right. Like they kind of throw it all kind of into one almost like. Yeah. Yeah, here's my argument.

You know, you say, hey, Jocko, I think that there should be voter ID in America. And I say, you. You're a Nazi. Right, right. You know, like, that's kind of the same thing. And then basically then all my friends start calling you a Nazi as well. Right, right. Or racist or whatever.

And then I say, well, you know, Echo, I think that we should have, you know, some form of welfare to help people out. And you're like, you're a commie. And then all your friends call me a commie. So that's like, that's what I'm saying. That's what that reminds me of. Everybody should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth bullets. Correct opinions. Yep.

Then you get into the C vocabulary, and when you get into C vocabulary, there was indeed no word for science, any meaning that could possibly bear being already covered by the word ingsock. So everything is just, it's just based on ink sock. And science, that's just ink sock. That's what they say is correct. That's science. So you don't need all these other words.

And C vocabulary was supplementary to us. others and consisted entirely of scientific and technical terms. But like I said, there's not too many of them. Ideas inimical to Ingsock, which is like hostile to Ingsoc, could be, could only be entertained in a vague, wordless form and could not only be named in very broad terms, which lumped together and condemned whole groups of heresies without defining them in doing so. So it's kind of similar to what I just said. Oh, you want, you're a, you're a conservative, you're a Nazi.

Oh, you're a liberal, you're a commie. That's the same thing, right? Your whole group is just Nazis. Your whole group is just commies. That's where we're at. The concept of political equality no longer existed. And this secondary meaning had accordingly been purged out of the word equal. In 1984, when old speak was still the normal means of communication, the danger theoretically existed that in using new speak, words one might remember their original meanings.

In practice, it was not difficult for any person to be well grounded in double think to avoid doing this, but within a lapse, within a couple generations, even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished. So they're going to get rid of the language over time. Like my kid might remember the other meaning of the word free, but his kids are going to maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe his kids, but by the time you get two generations, we're good. No more freedom. Not even a thought. Getting to the end here. When old, and I'm fast-forwarding through a bunch of stuff, when old speak had been once

and for all superseded, the last link with the past would have been severed. So if they could have gotten control the language, they would have made it. History had already been rewritten, but fragments of the literature of the past survived here and there imperfectly censored. They didn't quite get rid of all the language. And so long as one retained one's knowledge of old speak, it was possible to read them. In the future, such fragments, even if they are chance to survive, would be unintelligible and untranslatable. It was possible to translate any passage of old speak into new speak unless it either referred to some technical process or some very simple notion.

It's very simple everyday action or was already orthodox. Good, thankful would be the new speaking expression and tendency. In practice, this meant no book written before approximately 1960 could be translated as a whole. Pre-revolutionary literature could only be subjected to ideological translation. That is 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 whatever any form of government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. and so to institute new government. It would have been quite impossible to render this into newspeak while keeping it to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crime thing. The whole thing was just crime speak. goes on here a good deal of the literature the past was indeed already being transformed this way considerations of prestige made it desirable to preserve the memory of certain historical figures while at the same time bridging their achievements into line with the philosophy of inges

various writers such as shakespeare milton swift byron dickens and some of the others were therefore in the process of translation when the task had been completed their original writings with all else that survived of the literature of the past would be destroyed. These translations were a slow, difficult business. And it was not expected that they would be finished before the first or second decade of the 21st century. There were also large quantities of merely utilitarian literature, indispensable technical manuals and the like that had to be treated the same way. It was chiefly in order to allow time for the preliminary work of translation that the final adoption of Newspeak had been fixed for so late a date as 2050.

So there you go, that's this appendix. And you know, you can see that they failed. They failed to change the language, which means they failed to get control of speech. They failed to ban free thought because of that. And because of that, they failed to successfully enslave, the world in their tyranny so very very scary very scary document and that's the language that's the control of the language based on reality based on history the language

control of a of a of a dystopian future and and you can see it's amazing how close Orwell got it and as Cowboy warned us it's something we need to watch out for and We can't control everything But we need to control we can and and going back to the the beginning of this That's why we don't have sponsors here who might limit what we say or limit what we talk to or limit who we talk to That's why This podcast right here what we're doing that's why it's a way and it's free for everyone so that as many people as possible here the lessons of history

here the reflections of human nature in the past so we can all learn and we can remember what's happened in the past so we don't repeat it so we've managed to maintain control of that but we don't really have control of everything here And one of the things that we don't have control of is the platforms that we come out on and we rely, obviously, we rely heavily on the platforms. And the platforms have been good to, good, good to us for the most part. So far, all the platforms, wherever you're listening to this right now, we've been treated well. It's been good. But at the same time, any of those platforms that we publish this podcast on could, they could actually shut us down if they wanted to.

They could pull the plug. They could hold us hostage. And I don't like that. And we don't like that. So we did some contingency planning. Little contingency planning. Look. What's the purpose of contingency?

Hopefully you don't need to use a contingency plan. That's the hope is that you don't need to use a contingency plan. But if we have to, we figured we better do some contingency planning just in case. So we're putting together our own platform as a contingency, setting up our own network or, I guess, reinforcing it, being prepared. If we have to, I hope it doesn't go that way, but we'll be ready to, we'll have a little sovereign land of our own. Echo Charles Our own little sovereign little Area little digital land

Little little Autonomous place That we We will have control over That we can do what we want And Echo has been working hard on this Right

To put this together A place where We can muster if we have to A place where we can bring our friends Their podcast If we need to a place where we can talk and we can argue and we can theorize the place where we can dissent we can subvert and we can rebel a place where we're free a place where we are free

to do what we want to do in case we need it okay so sounds fired up to me actually what does it mean pragmatically so like i said echo has been for the past few weeks putting together some the The actual sovereign world, the underground, the deaf core underground, doing the technical work. Besides just pressing record. Echo has skills. A separate. So, so what we set up, what Echo is set up, because pretty much I didn't do anything. So it's like saying, we better do this just in case.

And Echo said, Roger that. So a separate, an underground, a podcast feed that's. underground, right? A separate underground forum, a separate underground kind of way to communicate to us. And listen, this podcast that we're doing right here, the Jocko podcast, this will remain free and available to all for as long as it is allowed to be free and available. I will never change that by my own volition. And believe me, we have had opportunity upon opportunity to do that. To go behind the firewall.

The pay wall. And we haven't done that. And we won't do that. So as long as we're allowed to do this, we'll do it. But we do need to have contingency planning. If you want to get in the game, if you want to support the underground, that would be appreciated. and and in order to like when we do that in order we're going to give something in order to kind of show our appreciation we'll do some things on the underground to you know show our appreciation you know maybe some additional sort of podcast things maybe some podcasts that don't fit in the typical format of a usual jocco podcast because that's one thing that you know i think of that the i try and maintain a consistency with the Jocko podcast that when you press play, you kind of know

what you're getting or you at least have some idea. So for me to throw out something that's, you know, really maybe a lot shorter or maybe it's different subject matter, maybe it's some kind of current events-based thing, whatever, I don't know, but we'll be able to do that. We'll be able to do that. We'll be able to do whatever we want because we will have pure, pure freedom. We'll answer questions. Probably do some Q&A a little bit more because at some point,

if you recall the early days the podcast, it was like, A, I could just respond to you on Twitter, which I would because it was just, hey, oh, you ask a question, cool, I'll just answer you. Oh, and if it was a good question, maybe we're going on the podcast and answer it,

but that became overwhelming because there's just too many questions to answer them all, having done a Q&A in a while. So we'll do some Q&A type stuff this is you know so you can ask questions direct um now you were saying something about like doing some kind of live connections yeah if we choose to yeah so if people want to well it's we me the proverb you all of us if we if that's our choice yes uh yeah so that's what we're doing obviously we'll be open to whatever suggestions you know you got so that's what we're

doing well we got to pay for it there's gonna be a little price a little price to pay for freedom we came up with a a pricing number if you can figure out the layers of this number what will they win let's let's let's this needs to be rewarded if you can if you can I bet someone can figure it out the if you if you're if you want to join eight dollars and 18 cents a month And if you can figure out the layers behind 818 Let us know you will win something

Something yeah It'll be cool something It'll be a cool something Do you think it's so obvious That everyone will figure it out? It's very possible Okay so maybe you If depending on how many people get

Let's say this The first three people That get it Will be rewarded But that way you know Look a little bit of A little bit of cost for freedom That way we can

invest in all these different things we want to do. And by the way, if you're freaked out or you're like, yeah, money grab and whatever, cool. No, no factor. If you can't afford that, if it's too much, we want you to listen. If you email assistance at jaco underground.com, ECHO will take care of you. He's writing down that email right now because he just made it up.

But he will have it live. And yeah, but if you can't afford to chip in, that's awesome too. And we appreciate it. There's also, you know, talking to some other friends right now that have other podcasts about, you know, giving them the same kind of bringing them into the fold. And that's where we're at. And like I said, I hope it doesn't come to a point where we need to go full deaf core underground.

But we prepare. We make contingency plans and we execute. So we'll do some cool stuff and we'll be ready. One more excerpt from 1984. Here's the quote. Don't you see that the whole. aim of new speak is to narrow the range of thought in the end we shall make fought crime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it and quote well

we will maintain the words and we will maintain our freedom echo yes sir so how do people join the jocco deafcourt underground go to jocco underground.com that's it straight up that's all you go there and that's where you can join if you want there you go cool kind of crazy what so obviously we're we're not just sitting around waiting for a dystopian future to to to be delivered unto us no we are not no we're preparing for it yes sir we also got to prepare for other things in life yeah we want to be prepared, we want to have capabilities. Yes. What do you recommend?

So, okay. So, and I vaguely heard of this book, 1984. Are you serious? Yeah, crazy enough. I don't know. Maybe I don't know. Maybe I'm quiet. That's just not how.

I don't know. I don't know. Okay. But it's really interesting because, like, they're little parts of that, like, all of that stuff that they're doing and trying to do or whatever. We do that in little ways. And it's actually, the thing is it's useful and it's actually beneficial in a lot of ways.

As long as it's not across the board. This is what we're doing. What are you talking about? You lost me there. When you want to make things binary, which we talked about on the last episode, actually. That's completely different thing. It's the same concept except it's used for good. So like, dude, you're getting wrapped around the fact that you have a computer programming mind and you want to take the English language and put it into a totally formatted system.

And it doesn't work. Again, if it's across the board... You know why it doesn't work? I'll tell you why it doesn't work. It's like Jiu-Jitsu. Language is like... The English language is like Jiu-Jitsu. Words come into it and they get adapted into it if they're good.

If they work. If they don't, then they get shut down. Oh, yeah, fully. And the same thing with like methodology in general. So if you, like, okay, so the binary thing, right? The binary thing, they're implementing that in language across the board, or that concept anyway, across the board. That's bad.

But you can use that in... in specific nuanced ways to make it like a more efficient situation, like working out or something like that. Where, okay, so I was working out today, actually. Something tells me you just want to tell me this story and you're given some kind of a... No, no. So this is an exact...

This is why this whole book is interesting. It's basically one of the many lessons or whatever. It's like you can take a good thing and just take it too far if you implement it across the board. Dicotomy of leadership A lot of this stuff, yeah, fully. A lot of this stuff, again,

in teeny tiny doses or used just like sparingly is like, it's good thing. It's like salt, really. Put a little bit of salt on stuff. It's pretty nice. Okay. Put too much salt or you put all salt right.

You're dead. True. So anyway, I'm working out. And my little son, he's like four now. He's doing, he's copying more and trying to understand and actively understanding like

burpees kettlebell swings. Yeah, he was doing, little kids like the kettlebell swings don't back you know I I don't want them to quite do my daughter does them or wants to do them whatever I don't know I don't need her like sleeping and bashing her shin with that little kettlebell I don't know anyway burpees all day yes well we can talk about that offline yes sir anyway having your kids do kettlebell swings is a good thing

seems like beneficial yeah okay cool um work on that coordination if we're worried about leg hits shin hits yes sir okay makes it makes sense to me So anyway, so my daughter was there and she was like talking about like how her, like, because she went to that running thing, what her legs are all sore and all this stuff. Meanwhile, my son, he's over and getting after it or whatever, right? And he's like, hey, I'm doing this or whatever so I can be strong. So my daughter's there listening. So it's like, yeah, it's true.

And you're going to understand in life. Answer me this. What's better? To be strong or weak? Strong. They say strong. What's it better to know how to do something? or to not know how to do something is it to know how to do something so okay what's better to be

healthy or unhealthy they say healthy or whatever right so obviously life is there's way more to it what's better to do kettlebell swings or not do kettlebell swings no well that's see that's another one of those things at on the surface you'd say yeah kettlebell swings all day but the point is there's a lot more to it than that but if I use that binary terminology just for that moment it's going to send a message more effectively granted it's a good message at this point, but you apply that across the board, but you just eliminate understanding, nuance, all these important things.

Yeah, I get it. I get it. Your, your theory is accepted, but it's really, really, really, you're taking like something massively destructive and just taking a little tiny piece of it. And saying it's good. Yeah, like salt.

Okay. Like I said. We'll go with it. But if I have a steak, come on, Jocko steak, right, all day? If I have a steak, I put a little bit of salt on it. Does that make it better or worse? In your opinion, that's an opinion. Can we put pepper on it too?

Yes, sir. Yes. Okay. What if? You put the whole thing. All salt. You put the whole thing. Actually, let me start eliminating some of the steaks to make room for more of the salt.

In fact, at the end of the day, let's remove the whole steak, just salt and pepper. Oh, wait, you want in pepper, right? So salt and pepper. Right, right, your day, it's not even good. It's not even the same thing. You see what I got it. So a little bit is good. a lot of it.

So a little bit of language control inside your own family with your children, trying to explain to them basic things like a binary decision-making process between good and bad in an immediate way is a positive thing. To influence their thoughts, for sure. Got it. Across the board, maybe not. Just remind me not to let you become dictator where you run that game on the whole country. Well, there you go.

A world. Sure, the world too. All right, anyway. Speaking of working out. Yeah, I worked out today. We're expanding our capabilities, our strength, our health, all that stuff. Right. That's what this path is.

So in the spirit of being pathful, you see what I'm doing there. Anyway, we got supplements, boom, joccal fuel. We got stuff for your joints. So you don't have to think about them aching anymore. You don't have to worry about thinking about them aching anymore. Thinking about that stuff won't even exist. It'll be impossible. to even think about it, those thought crimes, et cetera.

Anyway, joint warfare. Also, super krill oil. These things, help your joints, boom, keep you in the game, even as we age through this human existence. Also, discipline and discipline go. It's for your mind, for your body, too. It's a daily thing, I think. But yes, enhance your cognitive capabilities as far as capabilities go.

Have you improved your routine where you're 100% on crew and and joint warfare with no holes in your game. No lapses. Did you just use the word 100%? Yeah. No. How can you not dig that? Why don't you just put them when you brush your teeth, you take it?

I know. Well, I thought we covered that as far as the brushing the teeth part because the routine is, it's nuanced. Anyway, it's because to really point it out, it's when the whole COVID thing, came to my shores. I was like, I grabbed the vitamin D3 in the cold war. I was that, like, my mind shifted to that as the priority. And then it'd be like, one day, oh, I didn't take the creole oil, you know? Not because, like, oh, I neglected.

I was like, okay, I'm just going to take this now or whatever. It's not as implemented into the routine as it should be. It's really crazy to me. Yeah. Really crazy to me that this is not a big, like, thing, dude. you could just do with the bottles next to your tooth brush you know what it is it no this is this is is really what it is now that I'm like anal analyzing my whole mind because you're right you're like we know it like helps you so much yeah yeah yes so here's the thing I'm violating two rules or maybe

it's just one rule with different terms resting on my laurels in complacency so you know how like brown my joints don't hurt so I'm not compelled to solve any problem you see what I'm saying but I'm not kind of I'm not taking my own advice you know like you know like you know what I think about that two days go by and then you do feel your joints it's like like for five six days you know you go six days until I start feeling it yeah but oh I'm not like off them I don't have issues right now but I'm just saying like as far as 100% daily the way that that when I do put it together I'm just not doing that but I'm getting there but yeah no issues for sure but that's I think baby steps bro

We're getting there. We're working on it. We're working on that discipline. So the lesson there is even take, I got to take my own advice. We don't want to think about that kind of stuff. But the only way to not think about your joints hurting or hurting in the future is to, through discipline, take them every day. See, now you're like that guy that's, you know, giving advice about something they're not actually doing. Yeah.

Kind of sad. I'll give the advice. Hey, take them every day. There you go. I do. Take them every day. Don't do what Echo does. Don't do what I do.

Well, technically, I don't know that I say take it every day. I say take it so you don't have to worry about your joints. But look, I'm saying right now and I'm starting it right now. How about that? Next time you check in with me 100%. I'm worried to check in with you. Anyway. You might be on cocaine or something next time.

Discipline and discipline go for your brain, for your body, for your whole thing, for your life, really. Discipline go. In a can. That's what I'm going to talk about. You like energy drinks? Cool. You don't like energy drinks. Yeah, I know why. Cool. Discipline go in a can. Is everything that an energy drink should be? And more. It's like a health drink. You've painted yourself to do a corner right there. You know, he wanted to give the counter example. When you painted yourself into a corner, you couldn't escape. Amen. I'm a creative. It's all the good without the bad. It's all the good without the bad. That's all the good without the bad. In with a good? Oh, with a bed. Yep. Go.

Go. Get some. Yeah. It's fully good. It's in Wawa. Right now. It's online. You can get it wherever you want.

Accessibility is not the issue here. Yeah. It's about making the correct choice, by the way. Freedom to choose. Freedom to choose the right thing. Yeah. You can get this stuff at Wawa. You can get it at Vitamin Shop.

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It's called Jocco Store. Same deal. If you want to represent on this path, if you want to be pathful and represent at the same time just hey man you can go joccostory.com get a disciplined shirt, hoodie, hat

some rash guards on there we do have a t-shirt club if you're into it and if you're into representing monthly variety different stuff so this is the kind of thing where maybe that's where the ungood t-shirt comes from right? Oh like slides

in as far as implementation let's face it it's very cool if you kind of if you're kind of in the game If you know the deal, yes. Like, if I see someone with an ungood t-shirt on from that, it'll be like, yep. So you might want to put that one in the lineup. Put it in the lineup.

A little un-good. You heard it here. First, Jocco's idea. Good one. I like it. It's not un-good. I'll tell you that. But, yes, t-shirt color every month.

You know, it's like one of those things in the theme of today's deal. It's not narrowing down your options for representation. It's expanding them. So what I'm saying? So anyway, yeah, t-shirts club. Check that up if you want, boom, on jocco store.com. Also, subscribe to the podcast. We got to, you know, the platforms that were on.

Like I said, they've been good to us. Let's hope they stay that way. Subscribe to it. Check it out. We also got, we got this podcast. We got the Jocko Unravelling Podcast. We got grounded podcast. We got the Warrior Kid podcast.

We got a YouTube channel where Echo does excessive amounts of CG and uncanny fakes or what did you say? Uncanny valley. Uncanny, he's out there in the uncanny valley. He's walking through the uncali vanny of death, uncanny valley of death. And he fears no robots. Nope.

So check out that. Also got little excerpts on there. We got psychological warfare, which is me talking for like a minute, two minutes, three minutes at a whack. And I'm telling you put your donut down. I'm telling you get out of it. bed telling you why to do it. I'm going to help you achieve what you want to achieve.

When you don't feel like it. Yeah, when you don't feel like it. Flipside canvas. Stuff you can hang on your wall. Some people would say art. I would say graphic visual representations of the path of justice. Got a bunch of books. A bunch of books about face. Leadership strategy and tactics. Discipline equals freedom, field manual, brand new version, you can probably get that one for, you know, somebody that you know that could, it was a little adjustment in life. Maybe it's the kind of person.

Maybe it's the kind of person that right now they could use some help. Maybe when they wake up in the morning, instead of having a routine where they take the supplements they're supposed to take, maybe they could just figure out through this book, they could find the discipline that it takes. to put a bottle next to their toothbrush and take it. Thank you, Jocko. Anyways, you can check out that book.

This week with Freedom Field Manual. Wade the Warrior Kid, four field manuals out. Way the Warrior Kid 1, 2, and 3. Mike in the Dragons, extreme ownership, dichotomy of leadership. We got Eshalonfront, which is leadership consultancy. We solve problems through leadership. Go to Eshalonfront.com for details on that.

We got EF online. We're on there all the time, live, doing Q&As. We got discussions happening with an entire network of leaders from all kinds of different industries. And the Eschelon front team myself, the rest of the team were on there all the time. So check out EFonline.com. We have the muster, which is our leadership seminar. We got Phoenix, March 3rd and 4th. Orlando, May 25th and 26th in Las Vegas, October 28th and 29th.

Go to Extreme Ownership.com. Look, by that time, let's face it, COVID's going to be over. We got the vaccine. We got vitamin D. We got all kinds of good stuff going on. I'm calling it. Well, let's hope it's over. Let's hope it's over.

And look, we didn't have any musters this year. So obviously, we got a bunch of people that are already signed up to go. But if you want to come, check it out. Extreme Ownership.com. We got EF. Overwatch. We got executive leadership for your company. If you want to hire a former military person, that understands the principles we talk about all the time,

check out EFoverwatch.com. And if you want to help service members, active duty service members, retired service members, their families, gold star families, then check out Mark Lee's mom, mama Lee. She's got a charity organization. And if you want to donate or get involved, check out America's mighty warriors.org.

And if you want to bring some dystopian future into your present day, we got you covered. You can get more of my despondent diatribes, or you can get more of Echo's disoriented differentiations. You can find us on the interwebs. And we definitely got some disoriented

differentiations from you today, didn't we? And you can find us on the interwebs, on Twitter, on Instagram, which, you know, Echo only refers to as the gram. And on that, Echo is at Equit Charles. I am at Jocco-Wilink. And thanks to all the military people out there in the world that fight against tyranny and oppression every single day and keep us free. And thanks to police and law enforcement, firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, dispatchers, correctional officers, border patrol, secret service, all first responders for being there when we are in our time of need.

And to everyone else out there, don't take freedom. for granted and countless sacrifices have been made to secure freedom and to preserve it and if we have to preserve it and I know that we don't do it perfectly but I do believe that in the battle of good versus evil and light versus dark and truth versus lie I believe that truth and light and good will prevail but there may be times of darkness and for those times we will be ready and we we may have to go underground at some point but we will never surrender and we will never submit to tyranny discipline equals freedom and freedom will overcome all and until next time this is echo and jaco out