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What are books about how government propaganda perverts meaning of words?

I particularly want to know how government distorted the meaning of capitalism over the decades and turned it into the disfigured, tortured, twisted, mutilated gargoyle it is now(Michael Moore's Capitalism). Government also manages to 'package' different meanings and create incoherent concepts like liberal democracy or social democracy.

Public Comments

1. Well ... the government has been at this for a long, long time and to see how it works you might want to look at the militant homosexuals. They turned the word "gay" which meant happy, carefree, lighthearted, or showy, bright coloured or finely dressed into a word that means "having a sexual propensity for persons of one's own sex". They like the government did it bit by bit repeatedly year after year until it was accepted as such. Try looking for this on the web search .... Propaganda Critic Introduction> Why think about propaganda That will explain a heck of a lot for you and it is simple reading, but incredibly informative... Now "politically Correct" doesn't mean to do as the constituents wish but to do what is good for the loudest minorities. Be it religious or secular what ever sells is used. So new words must be incorporated into the jargon of everyday policies and we the people don't count as a majority. Not until voting time anyways......
2. The classic ones are "Animal Farm" and "Brave New World".
3. Government didn't start this course of action; lawyers and speechmakers have been doing it forever. It was also taken up by public school teachers once they decided to bring a collectivist agenda to school teaching. They seem to have been inspired by the book, "Teaching as a Subversive Activity". This also continued from the mid-60s to the present day in public universities, and, I understand, now to private universities. As a political ploy, it was also useful for conservative and Republican politicians and candidates to use the word Capitalism to mask their own intentional perversion, bending governmental functions to provide welfare-like benefits to corporations, and those in the know now call that "corporate welfare" instead of capitalism. I heard, when a radio caller asked the talk show host and author Mark Levin, what is the fundamental message of your [bestseller] book, "Freedom and Tyranny"?, that his answer was "Words have meaning." I suspect that is a partial answer to your question. That book was a bestseller for tens of weeks, so I have no doubt it is an interesting book.