Hearing Without Hearing #1

This is something I am working on regarding how Christians in churches have come to the place of hearing the Truth without really hearing, a matter of grave concern. These early posts will identify Satan's strategy for easing Christians into the place of not really hearing by redefining everything in our culture, wherever we may be.

In his amazingly insightful novel 1984, George Orwell invented a new language that he called Newspeak. It was the language used by the totalitarian government to control the masses of people. Its opposite was Oldspeak, which was to be set entirely aside. Through using Newspeak, Big Brother could limit free thought and free speech. Here is an example of the underlying purposes of Newspeak:

Countless other words such as honour, 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 round the concepts of liberty and equality, for instance, were contained in the single word crimethink, while all words grouping themselves round the concepts of objectivity and rationalism were contained in the single word oldthink. Greater precision would have been dangerous. Orwell, George. 1984 (pp. 240-241). Sanage Publishing. Kindle Edition. (Emphasis mine)

Those words that had been a part of the common man’s vocabulary, but did not align with Big Brother’s agenda were now literally criminal; they were not permitted to be used any longer. Thus: crimethink. Other concepts were grouped under the heading oldthink, placing upon them a stigma of being “old fashioned” and outdated. This is a very small example of the radical nature of redefining everything in the book. Over time the citizens just automatically shifted into a trancelike mentality, and became more and more manageable and docile.

Orwell’s book has enormous relevance to what is transpiring all across the world in 2023. Literally everything is being redefined by those that hold the reins of government and the Media, the educational system, the health care industry, the agricultural/food industry, the entertainment industry, etc. I will take a very hurried look at each of these areas of cultural redefinition. Afterward, I will home in on how all of this has prepared Christians to hear the Truth without really hearing it.

Governments all across the globe work together with their media comrades to dictate how we are to think and speak. Simply consider the power of a large, popular social media platform (such as Twitter or Facebook) literally censoring posts based upon whether or not they align with politically-acceptable “party-line” positions. I am not just making this up. Listen:

Those controlling the levers of power vilify dissenters and punish every attempt at questioning, skepticism, and debate. Like all tyrants in history, they ban books, silence artists, condemn writers, poets, and intellectuals who question the new orthodoxies. Predictably, the pandemic became a pretense for expanded tyranny across the globe—making changes that have nothing to do with a virus. Hungary clamped down on free speech and banned public depictions of homosexuality. China shuttered Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper and jailed its executives, editors, and journalists. In Belarus, President Lukashenko subdued protests with mass arrests and even hijacked a passenger plane to arrest a dissident journalist. Cambodia abolished due process and arrested political opponents. Poland’s government abolished rights for women and gays and effectively banned abortion. India’s Prime Minister arrested journalists and ordered Twitter to remove critical posts. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin used the pandemic as (another) pretext for jailing powerful opponents and banning mass gatherings. And democracies were not much different: France required its citizens to show a signed declaration to travel more than 1 kilometer from home. Australia was more liberal, allowing citizens to venture up to 5 kilometers from home— but then again, Australia also built new detention centers. Britain banned its citizens from traveling abroad.

Many similar things happened in the United States, including New York’s Senate passing a law to allow for the forcible and indefinite detention of residents deemed to be a threat to “public health.” But for America, freedom of speech has been the biggest casualty of the emerging tyranny. The now-popular term “misinformation” has come to mean any expression that departs from official orthodoxies. Social media and news media companies serve as stenographer and defender of any position pronounced by government. The intentional failure of journalistic inquiry, curiosity, and investigation, the failure to probe, to ask tough questions (or any questions) of those in power—has enabled the madness and the sadness of 2020 and 2021.

Kennedy Jr., Robert F. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) (pp. 926-928). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition. (Emphasis mine)

Mr. Kennedy, whatever you may think of him, has written extensively on such topics. His writing is carefully and thoroughly documented, identifying source materials meticulously.