Monday, January 3, 2011

The indictment of the vernacular

That Crazy Lady commented: ' It's not the fault of language itself though. It's more related to introspection and critical thinking.'

Yes, but the USE, aka the vernacular interpretation, I indict as the culprit. The interpretation becomes the tool of (mindless to submissive) thought and that thought's linguistic syntax. The words and terms we choose for use as our thoughts affect not only our spoken communications, but our subconscious command imperatives, which are the triggers for our more powerful emotional predispositions. The 'Book of St. John' made a great point by opening with the verse, "In the beginning was the word". Words determine what and HOW we think. Just like a contaminated, corrupted, or infected media culture; or as the maxim for computer programming states, 'Junk in, junk out'. The highly influential commercial, as well as social mores and traditions 'program' the boundary forms and limits of the interpretation. 'American Exceptionalism', 'Manifest Destiny', 'special relationship'-all a part of the 'big lie' which Orwell, Huxley wrote about and the Nazis showed its political and cultural application. Compound these big lies with the little fallacies of authority, status, and title abuse in personal relations, let alone institutional and secular settings, and there you have a population with a contaminated and corrupted language base that they mindlessly to gluttonously consume to the communication indolencies and morbidities of thought and (lack of) expression (and introspection) we have both noted.

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