First We Take Manhattan The Language…

Two bloggers picked up on the creeping change of language (in separate stories) in an attempt to inculcate social change.

First, Leg-Iron on the Japanese weight-loss research:

But the research also found that people with a happy-go-lucky bright outlook at the start of the therapy were less likely to succeed.

These patients were described as having "free child" (FC) ego states marked by assertiveness and optimism.

Successful weight loss was associated with a more responsible and cautious "adult" or "A" ego state.

So if you behave as the Righteous tell you, you are an adult. If you don't care what the Righteous say and insist on living your life your own way, you are just being childish. Assertiveness and optimism are childish conditions. Blind obedience is the adult way.

Funny. I had it pegged the other way round.

Neat trick, eh?

Next, Dick Puddlecote noted the incorrect use of the term ‘whistleblower’ to describe the person who informed on the two policewomen sharing childcare responsibilities:

”What is worrying about this report (it is the Daily Mail, but are you certain this isn't going to catch on?) is the use of the term 'whistleblower'.

A whistleblower should be a positive description of a selfless person who exposes misdoing for the common good, often at huge personal risk to themselves. Not, and I repeat not, anything like the 'anonymous complainant'…”

Working as intended, of course. All good fascist states need their little army of snitches, after all

Expect more and more of this sort of thing as the front men for the progressives - the Labour Party - start to lose their grip on power, and their acolytes dug into our institutions start to store up some fat for the long winter to come...