How Ambiguity in Language is Abused in Politics

[emind]

Hi guys. I hope you're all doing great. I thought it would be apt to share a video I made here concerning  Ambiguities in Language and their abuses in politics. While I do understand that poltics is as much a matter of the spiritual development of citizens and their governors as it is about logical analysis, a definitional clarity akin to that used in scientific reasoning could very well aid us in avoiding these abuses. Don't you think? 

 

[commie]

The issue you do not address is that language is subject to political power, making Orwell more relevant to your topic than any liberal philosopher for instance. Politicians are wont to say obvious falsehoods while requiring others to speak in ways that support the lie not so much in order to confuse the uninitiated but as a ritual of submission reinforcing the separation between the in-group and the out-group and making productive communication between the two less likely. As you can see by reading threads in this forum for instance, when it comes to charged political topics, people are typically more interested in determining whether the speaker is part of an in-group than in understanding what they're saying.

You're only scratching the surface of ambiguity in language by the way.