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Those who control the language control the narrative and those who own the narrative rule the world

Those who control the language control the narrative and those who own the narrative rule the world

In Canada, that's Canadian Press, which shapes the dialectic that dominates most of our media. And guess what? It leans kinda leftish. Plus! CBC loves the West!

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Words are powerful weapons.

As American science fiction writer Philip K Dick put it “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”

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