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American Culture: It’s in the Ditch
Pavlov’s Human
I am not a young man. But when I look in the rear-view mirror I can still see middle-age quite clearly, and it was during this period when I began to see it all come apart; the fracturing of the public mind, or what might be more correctly referred to as the collective psyche of the American public.
Psyche: 1. The human soul. 2. the mind esp., Psychiatry the mind considered as a subjectively perceived, functional entity, based ultimately on physical processes but with complex processes of its own; it governs the total organism and its interactions with the environment.
The above was taken from a physical book that we used to call a dictionary, and was printed in 1996, before the practice of “semantic redefinition” became widespread. Early examples of this practice can be found in Orwellian terms, such as “war is peace,” “freedom is slavery,” as well as “ignorance is strength” and has now escalated to utterly bizarre proportions in the present day, such as redefining what torture actually is when you get caught doing it in Iraq.
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