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October 7, 2015
From Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power, by Josef Pieper
"The general public is being reduced to a state where people are not only unable to find out about the truth but also become unable even to search for the truth because they are satisfied with deception and trickery that have determined their convictions, satisfied with a fictitious reality created by design through the abuse of language.--" The News Is Propaganda | Politically ShortPosted by gerardvanderleun at October 7, 2015 9:31 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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W. H. Mallock
"The intellectual barbarians were a phenomenon new to history: they showed us real knowledge in the hands of real ignorance...Seeing just too well to have the true instinct of blindness, and to ill to have the proper guidance from sight, it has tightened its clutch upon the world of thought, only to impart to it its own confusion."
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at October 7, 2015 10:24 AM
The sole purpose of all media is to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Fat, dumb and happy make for an excellent media consumer.
Posted by: leelu at October 7, 2015 1:05 PM
George Orwell writes:
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.
Our civilization is decadent and our language — so the argument runs — must inevitably share in the general collapse.
It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes.
Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.
Posted by: chasmatic at October 7, 2015 1:13 PM