THREAD-O on the dictionary...
The Modern Nightmare: where all words and meaning expressed by the individual, no matter how jarring or contrary, are absorbed or deconstructed and inexorably incorporated into The Narrative.
The Modern Nightmare: where all words and meaning expressed by the individual, no matter how jarring or contrary, are absorbed or deconstructed and inexorably incorporated into The Narrative.
https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1316223349719216128
The Hyperreal Nightmare: The Narrative is that there is no narrative, as each individual produces his own #fakenews, and no matter how common or harmonious, their words and meaning vanish into the winds of Babel.
Either way, the self is the most secure of prisons, and to be trapped within it the most torturous form of isolation.
To retroactively change definition of words in order to make words already said an offense—a hate crime—is to attempt continuous control over the surface level perception of things. Words matter in this sick scenario only in order to determine perception of the present.
Words here are not connected to reality, but assist in helping determine perceived reality so as to destroy your opponents. There can be no set dictionary in such circumstances. The dictionary is a weapon one fights for & then uses to shape landscape of communication to win.
The dictionary as wrested weapon used to shape the landscape of communication has no need for etymology, or any rooted connection of words to our understanding of reality itself. The upshot? Words & all verbal communication & attempts at persuasion are radically devalued.
The more one uses this method and perverts speech, the more one renders speech pointless. Communication and perception quickly spiral into worthlessness. Forceful action and raw power becomes necessary above all, and must be employed more directly in relation to politics...
At the same time, by enervating that which makes humans social and rational - namely, speech/words - you make it more impossible for ordinary people to connect with each other except via the constantly changing details and the overarching major themes of propagandistic mantras.
What's left? Those already powerful, corralling ever less organized masses of people into the lanes that best keep the already powerful in power.
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