Dear George,
Check out this quote. It explains how your administration has achieved such stellar success and how it has been able to go where no administration has ever gone before.
When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalization, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transformation and there is no transformation without action.
Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
To consolidate your power, all you have to do is reduce to empty platitudes the words that once moved this country to action. The word resonates with a depth of meaning that produces this action; the platitude simply moves air and produces an apathy that can only be stimulated by clicking the buttons on a remote.
Think of what you can do with words stripped of their action. You can speak of justice as you torture, freedom as you incarcerate “enemy combatants” without the benefit of habeas corpus, compassion as you oppress the working poor, and liberty as you deport aliens.
Meaningless meaning is the backbone of oppression. Words stimulate; platitudes numb. Given enough sterile verbalization, the public will remain inert as you save freedom by destroying it.
Keep those platitudes flowing, George. They are to your administration what bed sheets were to the Klan.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones.
5:53:41 AM 
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