Language to obscure
Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words “the American People” provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don’t need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it’s very comfortable.
This year’s Nobel Prize winner, playwright Harold Pinter, in his acceptance speech castigating US leaders for their use of language to anesthetize the American public.
December 12th, 2005 03:31
A scathing indictment and appeal to our better natures.
A voice crying in the wilderness?