Meme Warfare

This paper investigates the relationship between culture and language through analyzing material and semiotic features in a context of language-in-use. The paper first discusses what is meant by ‘material’ and ‘semiotic’ context from an SFL perspective. It then investigates the way in which these two ‘senses’ of context may converge within a specific instance, affecting interaction in a subtle way and together construing a cultural phenomenon.

"The right to determine what shall be done with one's own body is a fundamental right in our society. The concepts inherent in this right are the bedrock upon which the principles of self-determination and individual autonomy are based."
Persecution has always been the Church's call to arms—spiritual arms.

Hey you.. the one wearing the muzzle. You think you are free?

Just because you consent to your slavery, does not make you any less of a slave.

Sometimes you just gotta ask Google the right question...

“Each wave of terrorizing creates its effects more easily (after a breathing spell) than the one that preceded it because people are still disturbed by their previous experience. Morality becomes lower and lower, and the psychological effects of each new propaganda campaign become stronger; it reaches a public already softened up.”
—Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind