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Thread #57990 Message #915998
Posted By: Little Hawk
22-Mar-03 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: New World Order Newspeak
Subject: RE: BS: New World Order Newspeak
It will not scar children to call regime change...war. It will not scar children to call "take out"...kill. It will not scar children to call ethnic cleansing...land robbery and genocide. It will free them to think clearly about what is really happening. Children are not so naive or clueless as you think. Matter of fact, most little boys are fascinated with the idea of killing things (as long as it's merely on a fantasy level, rather than happening in real physical life).
Nor does it require the use common vulgar obscenities to express what is actually happening in the World these days.
The Newspeak is intended to sanitize what is happening, and make outrageous actions by certain people look like...well, really helpful and useful activities that will benefit all humanity.
That is hypocrisy, intended to shape public opinion. Children are usually rather good at picking up hypocrisy, and they see a lot of it. That's why so many of them go through a bitter, angry phase when they hit the teenage years. They have good reason to be angry with the adult world. It lies to them every day of their lives.