Some time ago Michael Hoffman II sent me a fast-paced tape that chided me, I thought, for using the word "Holocaust" loosely. He had something else in mind, and he explains it partly in this essay, 'The Language of Mind Control" and partly in a tape he markets:
"Twelve years ago this writer penned, "The Psychology and Epistemology of 'Holocaust' Newspeak" for the "Journal of Historical Review."
As someone employed in both journalism and advertising I am acutely aware of the totalitarian uses of the deformation of language. The best introduction to that process may be found in the appendix to George Orwell,s "1984,"where he unveils the principles of "Newspeak."
The analysis of how our thinking is controlled and diminished through the imposition of Newspeak (most famously in the ubiquitous connotative neologism represented by the recently coined "Holocaust"word, which was minted as the proprietary trademark for the contretemps of one nation of people), has been my specialty.
Unfortunately, the majority of revisionists have fallen into the linguistic snare prepared for them and they continue to this day to defeat their own cause by echoing Newspeak and going about declaring, "The Holocaust never happened."
They are oblivious to the clever trap at the core of this nebulous term which, in its ambiguity means everything and nothing and functions like a universal solvent for the eradication of critical thinking.
When revisionists declare that, "The Holocaust never happened" they are connoting to the public that no Jewish person was ever persecuted, that the body piles didn't exist, that Hitler was not anti-Jewish.
Since there is no scientific definition of the "Holocaust" in the public mind, when revisionists say "it didn't happen," the confusion summoned by this Newspeak creates the impression in the masses that we are denying such indisputable verities as the existence of concentration camps.
Prior to the imposition of "Holocaust" Newspeak, revisionists made specific critiques which were unambiguous. They attacked the "Six Million"casualty figure, the homicidal gas chambers and the notion of written orders for genocide.
Each specific critique had to be dealt with on its own merits and the making of a rational debate was in the works.
It was to defeat the precision of revisionist skepticism that in the late 1970s, Elie Wiesel played a leading role in the imposition of "Holocaust" Newspeak and the verisimilitude it exudes.
Since that time we have witnessed an unprecedented phenomenon. Prior to circa 1978, the persecution of Jewish people under the Nazi regime was gradually being placed in the context of all the other atrocities and war crimes of this most sanguine of centuries.
But after 1978, the hype and delirium began to accelerate, so that today we are at the approximate pitch of war hysteria and atrocity propaganda that existed during World War Two itself.
There is no other war epoch that exerts any similar effect. After every war, with the exception of post-1978 WWII studies, the propaganda about the enemy fades and the public gradually discovers the humanity of the erstwhile enemy and the mendacity of much that was said and written about that enemy in the heat of combat.
This too was the normal and natural course of events following WWII up until the late 1970s, when the language of mind control was given universal currency in the form of the remarkable acquiesence to a new word for allegations which had previously been termed, "the Six Million"or the "Nazi Genocide."
After that, the fog engendered by "Holocaust" Newspeak was embraced by media and academia with a bovine unanimity formerly associated mainly with the falsification and alterations typical of the lexicon of the Soviet Stalinist dictionary.
As a professional wordsmith sensitive to the manipulation of the mind as represented by Orwellian language, I was startled and dismayed by the fact that the vast majority of revisionists were as passive and compliant in adopting "Holocaust" Newspeak as the most thoughtless Zionist enthusiast.
The only prophylactic adopted by a few revisionists who have been exposed to my analysis of this totalitarian word gambit has been the placement of this Newspeak inside qualifying quotation marks ("Holocaust").
The broader implications of my warning have been ignored and a good many revisionists continue to incorporate the "Holocaust" neologism into their own discourse without scruple, thereby becoming puppets of the very manipulators they purport to overthrow.
Because I believe that until we expose and defeat Orwellian Newspeak, revisionism can never advance as it should, I have prepared a special study tape comprised of a lecture I delivered last year in Tampa, Florida. This audio cassette is entitled, "Overcoming 'Holocaust, Newspeak. It may be ordered for $9.95 postpaid (overseas send US$12).
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(Copyright©1998 by Michael A. Hoffman II. All Rights Reserved. Excerpted
>from "Revisionist History" no. 7, Aug.-Sept. 1998).
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Thought for the Day:
"Good words are worth much, and cost little."