Arakeen Idealology

"In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words. From witch-doctor to priest to beaucrat, it is all the same; a governed populace must be condition 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 understanding; symbols 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 it's users are accumulating some form of power." And the Bene Gesserit Panoplia Prophetica says: "If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is 'right' or 'wrong,' 'true' or 'false' you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced."