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Thought-Terminating Clichés

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The Language of Non Thought

The goal of these things is to shut down thought and all analysis at that spot, right? Totalist language then, he explains, is repetitiously centered on all encompassing jargon. The effect of the language of ideological totalism can be summed up in one word, constriction. Since language is so central to all human experiences, capacities for thinking and feeling are immensely narrowed.

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