Screen Shot 2017-02-23 at 5.24.46 AMLearn words.
 
If you can no longer come up with a word for an idea in your mind, soon you will no longer be able to think that idea. A shrinking vocabulary leads to a crippled imagination. Read glossaries. Beware of slogans, because they are a conscious assault on your ability to speak or think outside the prescribed cliches of your own movement's indoctrination (via their news sources, pulpits and podcasts). And that's on purpose. Learn words.
 
Freedom requires imagination. 
Imagination requires thought.
Thought requires words.
Learn words.
 
This from Orwell's 1984:
 
"'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. … Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. … By 2050–earlier, probably–all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron–they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How can you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. … Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness."
 
"As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was noise tier in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck. … Duckspeak."
 
Today, Duckspeak sounds like political slogans, religious cliches, intstant retweets, abbreviations (I C U, ur my bff – ttfn) and communication by emoticons. If that helps you text while driving, fine. But please …
 
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No, it's far worse than that. More dangerous than texting through an intersection. Duckspeak calls political propaganda "alternative facts," freedom of press an "enemy of the state," and so blurs the lines between comedy satire, "fake news" and government press conferences that we can only express our outrage as laughter and our resistance as mocking memes posted to our social-media echo chambers. I guess that's something. But please…
 
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