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"Slacktivism" may or may not catch on and last. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Go to <a href="http://www.wordsmith.org">wordsmith.org</a> and subscribe to A Word A Day. It's free. After a few months you'll get an inkling of how many words have effectively disappeared from the English language without any intervention by anyone like Orwell's character Symes. You'll probably find you don't care that much because other perfectly good current words convey the very same meanings. Then too, remember how terms coined with propagandistic intent can backfire -- like "freedom fries." The point is that in the long run the natural evolution of language will give "newspeakers" their comeuppance.