{"id":110,"date":"2008-03-18T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/chilling-essay-on-the-torture-of-language\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:51:59","slug":"chilling-essay-on-the-torture-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/chilling-essay-on-the-torture-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling Essay on the Torture of Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush years have brought us many execrable things.  Conspicuous among these has been the absolute abuse of the English language beyond comprehension.  I&#8217;m not talking about our favorite Bushims (like, &#8220;You work hard to put food on your family!&#8221;); I&#8217;m talking about the systematic suppression of rational thought through linguistic devices.  <\/p>\n<p>Essayist David Bromwich spells it all out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/21199\">Euphemism and American Violence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of men who think what they want to think and pay little attention to evidence have been running things; and they are guided not by experience but by words that were constructed for the purpose of deception.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush years have brought us many execrable things. Conspicuous among these has been the absolute abuse of the English language beyond comprehension. I&#8217;m not talking about our favorite Bushims (like, &#8220;You work hard to put food on your family!&#8221;); I&#8217;m talking about the systematic suppression of rational thought through linguistic devices. Essayist David Bromwich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,199,9],"tags":[125,245,153,219,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}