From this reductionist bottleneck comes the possibility of change. An election is rather like this. The multitude of ideas, hopes and fears of a population are summarized in simple marks on paper, which are used to determine the composition of the next set of representatives. Throughout science, reductionism, if understood in this positive sense, is a force for creation. By creating a few ideas that explain the data from a vast number of observations, a great mind can give others the power to create new predictions and new applications to useful devices.
Any repressive government knows that stamping out a language is a step to stamping out a culture.
Science, too, permits only limited use of words, with rather precise meaning, but with the opposite intent, namely to enable greater understanding. Scientific reduction is not like 1984, not like that at all. It is enabling, not disabling. It is creative, not destructive. Its language is liberating, not restricting.