This is such a profound concept. Worth nothing that after German reunification, East Germans had lost the vocabulary and political context of democracy, and di

This is such a profound concept. Worth nothing that after German reunification, East Germans had lost the vocabulary and political context of democracy, and didn't really know what parties meant, what they did, the concept of voting, balance of power etc. etc.. It was erased. We see this in people fleeing North Korea - they often talk about people not even having the ability to have certain kinds of dissenting thoughts. I'm sure this is an issue everywhere, but the pervasive ability of the CCP to control language is problematic.