2009
Duckspeak Doublegood.
Oddspeak Doubleplusungood.
Or, to put it in slightly less Orwellian terms:
It’s 2009. The wonderful bastardised mishmash that is the English Language is shrinking. Not quite in premeditated and calculated way of Orwell’s Newspeak, but in the same way that an unused appendage will atrophy and wither.
Gone are the long, flowing and articulate sentences of the past, awash with character and charm. Replaced with the clipped and calculated Duckspeak of a mass media designed to whip the masses into a frenzy.
What opportunity for a coherent response is there when headlines screech and scream that the enemies are at your gates, amongst your children?
Desperate times call for desperate measures. The fast-paced media climate means that it isn’t enough for a news outlet to inform you. They require you to take them into your life. Hate when we say hate. Love when we say love. Grieve when we say grieve. “Here they are” scream the papers – “those who you must emulate and adore, those who you must shun and loathe. And we? We are the truth, the arbiters of the line between the one and the other.” Information and investigation has been replaced by brand awareness and mob culture.
But what of the people? A society’s vocabulary isn’t the sole charge of those who print the words. The media and the masses are intertwined – one must necessarily reflect the other. And the people have been bamboozled and browbeaten. Quantity and speed far outweighs quality and thoughtfulness. Why identify with an amusing anecdote when a hastily typed “lol” will do? Terrorist attack? “omg“. Dead Princess? “rip“. Three keystrokes and your sentiments on any subject can be thrown into the bear pit of the “interactive” media.
It’s not a matter of being asked to jump and replying “how high”.
JUMP! (Or else terrorist immigrants will eat your children)
“k“
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