Dear Friends,
It seems to me that our language is under attack for political purposes. The definition of words is the main focus but actions are being redefined too. “Liberal” publications even call attention to the fact that if you want to change people’s opinion about a subject rename it. There are people who put absolutely no limit on the scope of their actions when it comes to politics. However, there is real danger in unfreezing language… It might refreeze at a point no one imagined. Changing fundamental things in ways that no one could have predicted. With possible dire outcomes. Moreover once a tactic is used in the political arena it becomes fair for any political actor. As we saw when republicans used a tactic thought up by democrats on the democrats and the democrat reaction was as hypocritical as can be. Our mutual liberty and prosperity are threatened by these actions.
This is altogether logical. The people who are changing language, to suit their wants, work in an egoistic way. They have no arguments that have not been thoroughly debunked. The arguments of Marcuse and Tonnies, not only being absolutely hypocritical (in the way they lived their lives), they have all been uniformly proven false. There is no intellectual argument that can be made, to empower the State to enforce political fairness, that has not been made. They are all equally egoistic and spurious. Therefore those that seek this political outcome must use unethical means to their ends. Logic is their enemy; Emotion is their friend.
Hypocrisy is laughed at by the unbiased media and the political Elite. It must be, for the hypocrisy of the unbiased media and the Elite, would otherwise be shown in stark detail. The most glaring example, (no matter where you fall on the overall issue), is abortion. Nothing could be more hypocritical than to urge the murder of an innocent unborn child, in a safe clinical atmosphere, while protesting to keep a cop killer alive. What about… supporting late term abortion and eschewing fur? The list is endless in the ways that legalized abortion is hypocrisy writ large.
The “liberals” have been seeking to normalize deviancy, for generations, by renaming it. They call a vitriolic attack on Roman Catholicism “art” but they would never broach such an attack on Islam, Buddhism or any other religion. The curious thing is, when communists get power, the first thing they outlaw is pornography, homosexuality and religion. The Nazis, Lenin, Mao, Fidel, et al. the list is complete. The communist government controls the individual to the nth degree. Even to the point of selecting his or her recreational activities. None of which are hedonistic. (Read Shang Yang). Just a bit hypocritical eh?
Even the term Liberal has been redefined to mean illiberal. Look at the positions of those calling themselves “liberal” today. They are uniformly anti capitalist, they call for the elimination of Israel, they demand thought laws, they seek control over the most mundane choices in our lives, they loathe Christianity, they always fall on the side of a bigger more powerful State and the modern “liberal” hates free speech unless it is his speech. Lets face it, they are the same people who brought us the French Revolution, communist revolutions and all their excesses. Their minds are as closed as a factory in Chicago.
Some of the terms being redefined are; To be racist is to be pro-capitalist, because no matter what a pro-capitalist says, it is called racist. While blatant anti Semitism is not denounced as racist – those that do denounce it are called racists. To be progressive means wanting to return to the Feudal System. In the end, that is what communism, and socialism, but, forms of feudalism. Where the goods of society are distributed by political power. Ala aristocracy, oligarchs run the show and distribute the goods… not the “unfair” market.
Look at the way the democrats reacted to the Swift Boat Veterans for Justice. The democrats had been using far more vitriolic attack organizations on republicans, for at least two election cycles before that, but when the republicans finally caught on, the democrats were horrified. The Elite and the unbiased media all denounced the tactic. The unbiased media were silent, about the fact, it was democrats that invented the tactic in the first place, and have several still in existence, Move on dot org is just one… Not the least hypocritical.
While it is clear that, people are changing language for political purposes, what remains unclear is how. Language is a factor of culture not politics. But today we see language not only becoming politicized but criminalized. So indeed politicians have seized the power to effect language but the cultural Elite still have far more power to effect language. Hollywood and other cultural purveyors including the unbiased media have great authority in this regard. As Maxwell Smart used to say, “Too bad he used his power for evilness instead of goodness.“
Too bad indeed…
