On Name-calling

In his analysis of “Newspeak” in 1984, George Orwell called attention to the important issue of having the courage to call things by their right names. Newspeak was a Satanic mill designed to grind into dust the semantic links that tether us to reality. Preserving freedom requires the ability to speak the truth freely. If the state can enforce the fiction that 2 + 2 = 5, all bets are off, which is to say individual liberty is at an end. Big Brother has won.