Lawrence Auster combines a keen intelligence and admirable clarity of thought with a tendency to battiness. Today he is in full batty mode, as he rails against an "Orwellian" - or should that be "orwellian"? - spelling change:
Why, within a historic blink of the eye, within perhaps the last couple of years, has virtually everyone--including magazines, including book publishing houses, even including many right-wingers--stopped capitalizing the words "Communist" and "Communism"?
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I can only suspect that the makers of these rules--liberals all--decided to start putting Communism in lower case so as to diminish the historic importance--and the vast totalitarian evil--of Communism, so that it would only seem like a tendency, a vague, general attitude, not an organized movement, party, and ideology that sought to control the world and for a long time did control a very large part of it, and that still controls China, although the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party has of course been changed in key respects allowing free business enterprise, though not other types of freedom.
At VFR, Communist and Communism will continue to be capitalized, as will "the West" and "Western civilization," which more and more people in this country--following the wimpy, apologetic British who don't even consider the name of their own civilization a proper name--have been spelling in lower case. Indeed, the way the Brits have been going, in another five years they'll be spelling British as british.
So "the British" spell West as west, do they? This one doesn't. Nor, a quick google (Google?) reveals, does The Times, The Telegraph, The Sun, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, or the BBC. The Guardian does, though, and as any fule kno, all the British think like Guardian readers. Why, even as they hit the shift key and type West, Times, Telegraph etc readers are practising taqiyya. Bring back capital punishment, I say.
What twaddle. lawrence auster must be short of something to worry about. Upper case, lower case, today he's a head case.
