Big Brother

Thursday,
April 30, 2009

9:56 AM

Controls citizens
through surveillance

Everywhere you go

Limit people by
changing the meaning of words

Big Brother.wma

Audio
recording started: 9:49 AM Friday, May 01, 2009

That's
how they control people

Who
gets to determine what words mean?

Thought police

Can
only think certain thoughts

1984

Warning
about present day

Rise
of totalitarism

Control
through language

Anyone in power
will try to control the language

Dead:
passed on, moved on, kicked the bucket

Pregnant:
expected,

Education:
test -> assessment

College
prep

Fail
-> non graduation list

Wait
list - you'll be acceptable

The
great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's
real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words
and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Language should
clarify, share ideas

People in power use
it to muddy the waters and obfuscate

is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

If you can't get
them with facts - dazzle them with bs

Saying nothing by
saying a lot

Attempt to gloss
over reality

Body bag -> Human
remains pouches -> transfer tubes (no image of whats in it)

Acronyms - for
really long names

Accuracy is
important

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Big Brother

Thursday,
April 30, 2009

9:56 AM

Controls citizens
through surveillance

Everywhere you go

Limit people by
changing the meaning of words

Big Brother.wma

Audio
recording started: 9:49 AM Friday, May 01, 2009

That's
how they control people

Who
gets to determine what words mean?

Thought police

Can
only think certain thoughts

1984

Warning
about present day

Rise
of totalitarism

Control
through language

Anyone in power
will try to control the language

Dead:
passed on, moved on, kicked the bucket

Pregnant:
expected,

Education:
test -> assessment

College
prep

Fail
-> non graduation list

Wait
list - you'll be acceptable

The
great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's
real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words
and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Language should
clarify, share ideas

People in power use
it to muddy the waters and obfuscate

is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

If you can't get
them with facts - dazzle them with bs

Saying nothing by
saying a lot

Attempt to gloss
over reality

Body bag -> Human
remains pouches -> transfer tubes (no image of whats in it)

Acronyms - for
really long names

Accuracy is
important