- 8 Mar 2005
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In an essay written by William S. Burroughs, where he suggests the methods that one might use to revolutionize a country, through systematic terrorism, assassinations, whathaveyou, one of the things he suggested was to change the nation's language to Chinese, which would create a more docile and submissive population... I've often wondered how languages effect us, in this way...It is interesting to think about how languages influences people's way of thinking and vice versa. I'm pretty sure there is some co-evolution going on.
It seems that there is a lot of ways to create dissonance in English, even for people with limited vocabularies. To express outrage...