Why is Propaganda so Powerful?

You, fools, think that words are labels…

Mao Tse Tung said:

We will conquer the world because you, fools, think that words are labels… We know that words are little dynamite sticks in people’s minds, and we hold the fuse.

In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the most powerful weapon of the totalitarian state is the revised dictionary. If you take a word out of the dictionary, the concept will die t…