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32. Sure they mran something.

Make them mean what you want them to mean.

Anybody that tells you that controlling language will change anything is selling you a bill of goods. If you can't expunge a word here, how much luck do you think you're going to have in the real world?

How many people have made a lucrative living advocating the control of language? How much progress has been made in that regard? None. But a lot of people made a lot of money at it.

I think one of the most important books in the twentieth century will be Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine . People creating entire fields if study devoted to the control of perceptions are just doing disaster capitalism. It's impossible to control language. Its unethical to control thought. But looking beyond the worst people have to offer and finding our common humanity is what helps us survive as a species and as a political party.

Nobody can really hurt you here - unless you let them. A fight here is the safest fight you will ever have and those who use words to upset you already know that.