In the future, there may be an IQ test which will have a question with two lists of words: A) MIRV, terrorism, nuclear bomb, deterrence, retaliation, freedom of the press, Western Culture, communist, moderate, radical, rights, pacification, democracy, peace and B) house, dog, sidewalk, door. Like an IQ test of the past, it will ask the test-taker to determine the fundamental difference between the two lists and to mark the appropriate oval without making any stray marks on the answer sheet.
The appropriate answer will be that the first list is a list of political words designed and employed by Western democracies of the 20th century in order to control the thought of their citizens. List B is a list of "concrete words" that are ideologically neutral and used in everyday life (Stansky 94). The answer is limited in scope and does not cover the many different rhetorical techniques used in 20th century democracies to "screen political acts, obscuring them behind a cloud of rhetoric so dense that most of us are left to play fools' parts, trying to guess what is really going on" (Rodgers 4),
Western governments often employ arcane and difficult words designed to interfere with the critical thinking process of their citizens (Chilton 37). The citizens are not forced to speak or write these words since these words are the vocabulary of the bureaucrats, intellectuals, and the press. But the public has no choice but to listen to them on the radio and the television and to read them in the papers and in books. People also feel pressure to us these words to "communicate economically" with others who have already been indoctrinated (Chilton, 37).
The public is inundated with these words that interfere with an individual's ability to think and ask questions (Matthies 108). The effects of meddling with the process that allows people to be alert to the true meaning of statements and to make informed judgments through analytical que...