Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage
by josephlord on Sunday May 18, 2014 @05:48PM
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My statement doesn't preclude the reverse relationship. Each relationship is almost certainly bi-directional.
Altering the language is a powerful technique to shift views and change the debate. Totalitarian regimes have used it extensively (and Orwell parodied/warned about in 1984) but it is used in democracies too, see the battle over the language for abortion (life/choice), the US redefinition of liberal and I'm sure many other things too.
Altering the language is a powerful technique to shift views and change the debate. Totalitarian regimes have used it extensively (and Orwell parodied/warned about in 1984) but it is used in democracies too, see the battle over the language for abortion (life/choice), the US redefinition of liberal and I'm sure many other things too.