newspeak silentbob when i was looking at the cover of the november 7 issue of newsweek magazine (or was it time? or is their a difference?) at first i thought i saw a picture of George Bush's head. But it looked awkward, somehow... just not right. Half was Gore and half was Bush. i didn't even recognize them as seperate faces, in my head, it all just came together as a dumb looking picture of bush. 001128 ... oing is there any other kind. ol' dubya looks like he escaped from that long-standing, well-paying gig on the cover of MAD magazine 001128 ... Thyartshallshant I thought that cover was rather fitting. Considering there so fucking alike it pisses me off. Plus there the same face of the same evil. 001231 ... misstree doubleplusungood. ow. 010101 ... misstree edit the language, edit the perception. example: political correctness. remove the word, remove the symbolic signifier. see also _anthem_ by ayn_rand for result of loss of the word "I" and any indicators of individual aside from group. would concepts exist if their signifiers were removed from each mind's lexicon? it is possible other signifiers could combine to form such, if a term was needed (interaolwebnet.com would be a useless term 10 years ago), but if what is signified is not experienced in life, there is no need for a term. 040122 ... u24 really? language is reflective of life? something doesn't seem right about this. 050120 ... misstree language is reflective of perception, and shapes perception in turn. ourobouros (sp?). 050120 ... sameolme The universe is not made of atoms, it's made of stories. 050120 ... stork daddy that's an awful beautiful thing to say 050120 ... minnesota_chris ooh, sameolme, did you know that some physicists believe that the universe is made up of information as well as matter, and that information cannot be created nor destroyed? 050202 what's it to you? who go blather from