In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words ... A governed populace must be conditioned to accept power-words as actual things, to confuse the symbolized system with the tangible universe. In the maintenance of such a power structure, certain symbols are kept out of the reach of common understandingsymbols such as those dealing with economic manipulation or those which define the local interpretation of sanity. Symbol-secrecy of this form leads to the development of fragmented sub-languages, each being a signal that its users are accumulating some form of power...
-Lecture to the Arrakeen War College by The Princess Irulan
(Frank Herbert - Children of Dune)
-Lecture to the Arrakeen War College by The Princess Irulan
(Frank Herbert - Children of Dune)
goob:
I think that last time I did read Children of Dune... perhaps more. I can't recall. I finished Dune again last week, and I am considering reading further. But I have so many other important things to spend my time with, namely school.