"How do they speak to us. Newspeak in our society ", is the recent book by Jean-Paul Fitoussi that for a few days has been distributed by the Editorial of the National University of Tres de Febrero (EDUNTREF).

This book seeks to demonstrate how, from the impoverishment of language, democratic debate is emptied of substance and thought is undermined. In the words of its author, we are trapped in a new language that, confiscating the words or altering their meaning, insidiously imposes a predigested way of thinking, in the Newspeak manner imagined by George Orwell in "1984":

«The great communicators had understood it well, both Joseph Goebbels and Big Brother. The impoverishment of language allows thoughts to converge. […] This book seeks to explain how it is used, in a democratic regime, to empty the debate of substance ».

Jean-Paul Fitoussi observes that we are told about economic problems, social and political with very little possibility of understanding what is being said. The use of all instruments of economic policy has been renounced so that we limit ourselves to the so-called "structural policies", who have no other objective than to reduce social protection. We want to fight inequality, but we accept that it grows more and more. It is said that work is our future, while the concept loses more and more value. We say unemployment is inadmissible, but we let it persist.

«We often have the impression of being trapped in an empty and information-poor speech. This impression is reinforced by the practices of some media, especially audiovisual, that seem to have passed insensibly from information to communication and from communication to propaganda […]. They tell us that poverty "costs crazy money". The discomfort that such a statement creates in the poor is not measured, how well we know that they ardently wanted not to be ».