The abuse of language
perpetrated by 's regime in Animal Farmis a danger that is alive and well today.
All over the world, political speech is strategized, honed, and refined in such a way
as to rob language of its "natural" meaning. Of course, this is not true everywhere
and not true all the time, but there is a distinct tendency to take ownership of language (in
commerce and politics) in a way that can be called abusive and which leads to confusion and
dishonesty while facilitating potential corruption.
This isn't a conspiracy
theory. It's a view of language wherein we see, as in , that language can be used to hide as
well as it can be used to explain or uncover.
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