Politics and the English Language

After reading George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language it makes me remember the Navy. I was in the navy for four years during that time I saw this type of writing and speeches all the time. The mono tone of lies that the higher ups tell all the blue collar workers. I chose a quote that sums up what I am saying. “When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases-bestial, atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder- one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy”(Orwell 6). I remember when the vice president came to the base in Norfolk, Virginia and he gave a speech on one of the carriers. It was like a robot talking he even sounded like a robot. I thought it would be pretty interesting listening to his speech. It wasn’t though it was a horrible speech and the reason is that he had no sincerity to it he was just reading some crap off a piece of paper. All of us sailors don’t want to here a bunch of back and forth arguments that make no since not to mention if you ask a question it will be answered with about five pages of bullshit and still not answer the question that you asked. This happens all over in the navy actually the whole time I was serving my country. I suppose that it has to be this way because when it comes to the military you just don’t know what might happen and the answers your given one day can completely change from the next. This reading will help me on my unit 3 paper in getting to the point and not just going on and on with a bunch of nonsense when you could simply just sum it up in a sentence or two.