Words; Weapons of Mass Destruction

Just like the colorful motif above says, words don’t come easy.

He said, she said, they said, we all said, and just who to believe, the spoken and written word is truly ambiguous.

In our culture, language is the weapon of choice to bash reality over the head, so understanding the importance of the meaning of words is crucial because if not, socio-political hucksters will superimpose their own interpretation to everyone’s detriment.

Sloganeering and compelled speech already make communication difficult as do soundbites where complex issues are reduced to the sum of a trite Three words trotted out ad nauseam, for instance, ‘children in cages’ and ‘make America great again’, okay, that’s four words.

Please don’t fall for the line that language is in a constant state of flux, that’s true to an extent, for example dictionaries are periodically updated, but other than that, we don’t get to make up as we go along.

Heard the expression ‘that doesn’t mean what you think it means,’ while in a debate with someone?

Basically it’s when words say one thing but your challenger interprets it as meaning something else by viewing it through his political worldview specs, leaving you out of the loop, hanging, pretty much ending the conversation and proving it’s all about subterfuge.

To have words mean what they say threatens the mission of recreating reality so the big guns have to be brought out.

Words as a weapon of mass destruction is more potent than a nuclear bomb because it’s a potent war on the mind, a way to ‘take out’ populations in a full-throttled assault against civilization itself.

Sometimes words don’t even matter because people HEAR what they want regardless.

Take the Mueller Investigation into the Trump administration’s collusion with Russia.

True the media in all its forms presents different perspectives but how do words based on the same set of facts yield such completely different conclusions?

That’s because people identify with the politically expedient view while ignoring the opinion of the other side, that is, they don’t listen.

While the journos who write the articles are just selling readers the party line for the most part, that is, people hear what they want to.

Going deeper with post- modernism

Like the question; what comes first, the chicken or the egg, in the same vein we ask; what comes first; postmodern politics or postmodern epistemology, a philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

It’s difficult to distinguish one from the other because they’re so similar that it’s hard to know which is primary and which is secondary but post modernists flit seamlessly from one to the other.

In its political form it’s affiliated with the politics of the left based on extreme skepticism as in; there is no objective truth so we can’t know everything, leading to denial of inconvenient facts while hypothesizing to fit with the party narrative, because well, truth is unknowable.

In their mind through diminishing reality they always win, or at least can’t lose.

Then there are the contradictions such as; there’s no such thing as values because they are all subjective, okay, except for the isms of sexism, racism and genderism and so on.

What should we attribute this perverse thinking to, madness, stupidity, the human condition or all this and something more.

How about strategy?

For example, someone with leftist inclinations might not believe in extreme skepticism but will use it against an opponent as a persuasion device, putting the other party on the defensive, like when facts are presented only to have it shot down as; that’s just your opinion.

Then the opponent responds with yes that is my opinion, giving the attacker a meaningless victory because it’s all just a play on words anyway.

It’s important to note to the Modernist the functionality of language is complementary to it being cognitive.

Conversely, to the Postmodernist, language is not cognitive because it doesn’t connect to reality and in the absence of cognition they recast the nature of rhetoric as persuasion.

To sum it up it more simple terms Modernists use language as a tool to convey reality while Post Modernists use it as a weapon to detract from it.

This is probably why some of the post mods take to screaming at the sky with their pants round their ankles.

Basically postmodernists are eternal pessimists to the point of nihilism.

They don’t speak the same language as everyone else and we have all experienced this through our interactions with people of this mindset.

A mindset so pervasive that no one has to read postmodernist philosophy to apply it, rather it’s rife in academia, throughout social media and in politics.

It’s also made inroads into religion via a process known as deconstruction, basically pulling the claims of the Christian belief system apart to reconstruct it in their image and really is just another route to skepticism.

Dishonesty underpins the postmodernist’s every action and because they are incapable of reasoning, avoiding reality is their only option with deception their weapon.

It’s not just a game though; it’s deadly serious with the main aim attaining power at any cost, preferably by foul means as postmodernists see themselves as revolutionaries on the right side of history with the prime example being contemporary social justice warriors.

They fail to see as they rob words of all meaning they rob any rightness of their cause, even their own meaning.

The postmodernist is at war with reality and the world in the quest to build an artificial reality, discarding the real one.

We’ve heard a lot about the dumbing down of society for close to sixty years now, where a public school educational qualification is no longer worth the paper it’s written on.

Dumbing down literally means to make stupid, so bear this in mind while reading the following ‘thought of the day’.

It should provoke, giving pause to reflect on the scope of the problem we face right now.

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently.

Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point.

Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

Robert Anton Wilson