[Mind-numbed Robot]

That is why Linguist like Noam Chomsky have become so prominent in the leftist movement. Words influence and guide thought. Slavery becomes freedom. Poverty is character building, at least when the poverty is caused by socialist.

It is also why Bob Kerrey called Clinton an unusually good liar and why the meaning of is was ambiguous.

[lentulusgracchus]

That is why Linguist like Noam Chomsky have become so prominent in the leftist movement. Words influence and guide thought. Slavery becomes freedom. Poverty is character building, at least when the poverty is caused by socialist.

Fortunately, more research and discussion have shown that the kind of systematic exclusion of uncontrolled thoughts and undesirable intellectual processes aimed at (no, really, they really have!) by 20th-century totalitarians is actually not achievable. As long as noun-subjects have verbs that take an object, constructions of the form "Big Brother eats [insert favorite scatological category]" will always be possible.

The Russian Communists, on the eve of the October Revolution, spent all night arguing about what to call the ministries they were about to take over. Having spent a generation demonizing them in Communist propaganda, the Bolsheviks had to find a way to force people to think of the selfsame "organs" in a positive way after the Reds took them over.