I awoke this morning with the strangest thought in my head; "freedom fries". Do you remember freedom fries? That brief moment in American history when it seemed as though some members of our government had finally lost their minds and Stalin's ghost materialized, pointed his finger at us and said "HA HA!"
It must have been an afterthought to the article I posted last night regarding Newspeak and it's effects on society. Incidentally, after Googling "freedom fries", I found an interesting article in Wikipedia covering the topic. Curiously, it provided a link to another article covering Newspeak. Apparently, I'm not the only one who finds evidence of the worst possible form of manipulation in our daily lives. The article on Newspeak provides a much better explanation of the principles behind it than I can offer. It even cites examples of Newspeak existing in English today.
Here are both of those links. I enjoy reading Wikipedia articles and following the trail of links from one topic to another.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
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