Imagine Prolonged Submersion...in Something More Like Anti-Language
Seeing Tyranny in a Democracy Can Be Hard…is your eye clear?
Currently there are literally trillions of dollars going to public relations firms flooding the idea marketplace worldwide with mercenary speech—designed not to share truth or revelation but to manipulate you. The mercenary speech is translated to you through mercenary statesmen and intermediaries for a mercenary purpose i.e. to make money for the very people who hired the mercenary firms in the first place.
One doesn’t spent trillions simply to change public opinion but rather to get a return on investment. The left and right ideologies are used or “gamified,” if you will, by this cabal to lock you into a box on the right or a box on the left through which YOU YOURSELF censor the very information you receive.
Any casual listener to Jordan Peterson will be aware that the Yin and Yang; Order and Chaos are both necessary for growth and maturity in a complex world and so The Left AND The Right are insufficient standing on their own, both own truths that the other side urgently needs to “see.”
I had a conversation about some of this yesterday on The Ron Show. (How Propoganda Hacked American Minds) Neither Ron nor I talked right or left politics.
Ron lead into the discussion with the following quote from Chapter Ten in my book One Idea To Rule Them All: Reverse Engineering American Propaganda.
"How does one convert a democracy, or rather a republic, into a tyranny? Most people would say that it can’t be done. The people are supposed to rule through their elected representatives. They work for us, right? America was set up as the ultimate bulwark against tyranny.
The founders created multiple checks and balances so that no one branch of government could become too strong. They also created two chambers of the legislature to ensure that the rights of states would not be overshadowed by simple majority rule or federal overreach.
Sure, some citizens have vague feelings that the government has become less responsive or sense that there are more bad apples in government than ever before, but the alarm switch that should trigger the potent potential of a growing tyranny never gets activated.
After all, we, the people, are still in charge. We have elections, a free press, the rule of law, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution in place to protect us. For most people, the solid framework of freedom still stands. The answer is to get the right people into office, and then the ship will correct itself. It’s nothing to worry about.
Seeing tyranny and propaganda at work in a democracy can be hard."
Mercenary speech has advanced and grown exponentially since the start of twentieth century—yes I said that right —twentieth century not the twenty-first century. Mercenary speech—speech for hire—saying mouthing or writing words whose ONLY INTENT is to influence you in a way, such that THEY—the purchasers of that speech— benefit financially. Think about that!
If you are on The Right and can only see The Left as so many degranged marxist lunatics; the box, or frame, with which you see the world is too limited. Similarly, if you are on The Left and can only concieve of those on the right as Nazi Fascists hell- bend on taking over the world for global capitalism, you have been “gamified” quite nicely into the Divide-Conquer Model as well.
The cacaphony of Mercenary Speech thrust at us daily is not worthy of a republic, is not dialogue nor debate; is not even authentic communcation. Imagine prolonged submersion in something more like Anti-Language, the bastarization, the annihilation of the very gift that makes us more than MERE animals.
Is your eye clear? If you can’t find common points of agreement with those across the aisle from you, THEY are winning the war to destroy authenic communication and YOUR SIGHT is TOO LIMITED.
Use language to unite, to heal, to share.