When I finish
reading 1984 written by George Orwell I thought about all the connotations of
controlling the language and controlling the history. First, it is important to
stablish that the person that controls the language controls the people.
In the
reading, the author talks about some topics that if you think about them you
can see all the danger that these topics carry with them. In the actual years,
we can see a lot how the media and the companies that work on advertisements
controls the language and predispose us to do something or another thing that
they want.
Explaining
the last idea, think about this, the infomercials of the open T.V are the best
example because this kind of commercials suggest people that they really need
the thing that they are selling. Another example of this is how Donald Trump or
AMLO became presidents of their countries.
The
language in politics covers the same patterns, they promise the voters that
things will be better in their government. The way they speak controls and
brainwashes the voters, specially the people that does not have (for one reason
or another) the real information of something or another.
But it is
extremely difficult to manage the language that way, that’s why language it is
a complete career that require a lot of intelligence and specially creativity
to actually control the language in a very good way that enables you to control
people’s thoughts or people’s actions. Like the thing that happen with Facebook
and Cambridge Analytica.
Finally,
nowadays all the professionals need to know how to talk and manage the language
properly to sell yourself to the future corporation where you will work,
because if you do not know how to do this, it will be so difficult to that
person to find a job and be selected in the interview process.
