One of the first and easiest things for a person or group to do when they're establishing social dominance is to try to control the language other people use. It's an attractive move because it requires almost no effort, doesn't actually have to fix any real-world problems, but still manages to assert dominance and control over others.

I've seen this a lot over the past two decades, and once you see the pattern it becomes almost impossible to miss. The interesting thing about it that it's pure social maneuvering: there's very little substance behind it.

The party must rename everything and rewrite history (1984)

From Emmanuel Goldstein's work:

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM [0]

PDF download: [1]

History must be rewritten to support the party.

As a web page: [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oli...

[1] https://archive.org/download/the-theory-and-practice-of-olig...

[2] https://genius.com/Emmanuel-goldstein-the-theory-and-practic...

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264228

Suppose a clear moniker could be chosen rationally what would it be? (auto)regressive intelligence?