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Welcome back to my VIP video series “The Amiable Skeptics,” featuring my friend Adam Baldwin! Adam is well-known for his long and storied Hollywood career, starting with My Bodyguard, and especially for his roles in Full Metal Jacket, Firefly, its film sequel Serenity, Chuck, and The Last Ship.
We pick up the conversation in this week’s episode where we left off last week. Adam and I get back to the ways in which George Orwell warned that control and manipulation of language means control and manipulation of populations, especially in his seminal work 1984.
“Change the words, to destroy the words, to recreate them again,” Adam warns. “It’s the Hegelian dialectic, Marxist dialectic, even now. It’s woke dialectic that they’re using now. But they’re changing words to give them no meaning. They’re problematizing them, as James Lindsay likes to say, so that they can recodify them in their own image.”
We have plenty more in our episode today. Enjoy the show, offer your thoughts in the comments, and tell your friends to subscribe to our VIP program to join these weekly conversations!
