Dear Mr Winston Smith

  It is brave and necessary for you and me and many millions of others to try to use on the people in power the same language of persuasion in online petitions as they use on us in elections. Alas, the language of persuasion acts like a two way mirror for the powers that be, but one way mirror for most of the public. Through language the people in power know far more about the people they have power over than the people who are ruled over, and falsely called citizens, know about their rulers. When the masses speak what they say becomes ground up digits of information that the government ministries, which strive to appear to be friendly, use to gain maximum information from in order to later prove their hostility, through their actions.

  The government department run by a Mr Iain Duncan Smith, our esteemed minister for long term unemployment is more transparently Orwellian than most. Should we thank Mr Smith for the open contradictions and covert hostility of his policies towards those who have the least? Not really....

1-he would not want the thanks, being sufficient in how he thanks himself, in the bespoke tailoring he displays as 'power dressing' when he addresses the media on terns where they have to be fawning towards him.

 2-it would be like thanking The Devil for his intelligence-it is not wise to thank people for their gifts when such gifts are honed to be used against us. It is wiser to know they have the gifts that empower their hostility and not thank them unless you can make it clear their hostility is both recognized and unwanted.

  Given the innate hostility of the powers that be towards the masses, which is now called 'the new brutalism' and their shyness about admitting to it, what we do in lieu of sincere thanks in communications is an awkward matter.

  Any open sarcasm would spotted as such straight away and openly held against us, the offended minister would spin themselves as 'being the victim of a backlash' and proceed with their own agenda. The least we can do is try to appeal to the kinder nature of governments whilst being hostile towards the powers that be underneath the surface in the language we use. And we must do this double think for our own advantage whilst having a more genuine support for each other than the state/government provides for us.

  Whilst there is life outside of the state it should be lived. Malcolm.