I’m fascinated when people, including myself, are offended by noises other people make with their faces. You can try to ban words, but that doesn’t abolish the

I’m fascinated when people, including myself, are offended by noises other people make with their faces. You can try to ban words, but that doesn’t abolish the thought that generated the word. However, that doesn’t stop people from trying. Ultimately compelled speech is an attempt at mind control. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak “Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell. To meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism in Oceania, the ruling English Socialist Party (Ingsoc) created Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy.” — In the future, how will people be able to judge whether they are enslaved or oppressed if the concepts and historical records of slavery are erased?