Consider with me the actions of Fauci and the liquid definitions of “Gain of Function” research. Before Fauci started getting hammered by Senator Rand Paul for funding “Gain of Function” research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) changed the definition to protect Fauci from the crime of “lying to Congress.” Consider the other lies, language tricks, and tyrannical actions of Fauci throughout COVID from Feb 2020 to the present (Feb 2022). Fauci regularly claims he is “consistent” in his approach, even when claiming he lies with noble purposes.
Quoting Uwe Poerksen (1995, p. 6), “… words, they sometimes appear to be a skeleton that displays the structure of the world more clearly than a full ideological presentation. … Words are channels that run ahead of history… they should be questioned constantly.” Consider this for a moment. Think of the skeleton, the bone structures that form the fundamental structure of a body. Words akin to the skeleton or frame allow the ability to communicate an idea, creating the substance of that idea for others to consider.
However, words by themselves, like a rib, an ulna, a hip bone, are merely a structure in a greater body. Words need the sentence structure to be appropriately organized to communicate with another person adequately. Why should words be questioned constantly? Because the use of a word is intentional by those speaking, and if the person speaking is attempting to control others through subterfuge, they will intentionally employ language that sounds nice while hiding their agenda.
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is employing these exact tactics right now in Ottawa, where the #FreedomConvoy is concerned. Listen carefully to the words and tone used. Someone in the media should have asked about the prime minister’s intent when calling peaceful protestors racists, fascists, and other derogatory terms. Merely uttering those words should have been a warning to every Canadian citizen and media representative that the prime minister has left the reservation and needs to be questioned more thoroughly about his intentions, reasons, and legal footing for taking action and uttering the words he has used.
One example, the prime minister claimed he wanted to build trust with the Canadian People. Still, all evidence (polls, opinions, and observations) declares the prime minister is vainly struggling to hold onto personal power, not build trust. How is the prime minister using the terms trust, terrorist, and other words to frame his ideas to better the lives of Canadians? Since the media is not going to call out the prime minister’s authoritarian actions and words. In that case, those protesting in Ottawa and at key crossings across the Canadian US borders are justified in peacefully assembling and demanding the government listen and act accordingly.
Recently, in the United States, people who consider themselves to be leaders and influencers gathered and discussed the plight of democracy. While the event was couched in friendly-sounding narratives, the actual intent of this gathering was to steal rights, liberties, and freedoms, further moving the United States of America under the heel of socialism (communism) for personal power.
Since the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), democracy has experienced the same fate as the term sexuality, as discussed by Uwe Poerksen (1995, p. 12). Democracy has “made its appearance as a fixed element, which the reader cannot comprehend.” Political Science degree holders, media representatives, and tyrannical influencers have twisted the term democracy, plasticizing the term and then stretching it until confusion reigns, chaos flourishes, and the result is theft of thought. Unfortunately, democracy is but one of a list of thousands of terms regularly plasticized for political gain and the expansion of tyranny.
During President Trump’s run for the presidency and his tenure in the Oval Office, a mental disease was passed around called “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” plasticizing a word while trying to describe the phenomenon of the term “disease” for political gain. Yet, what did we witness then, which continues today, people choosing to blame President Trump for everything wrong when personal responsibility and confusion of vernacular are central to the problems experienced.
Governor Jerry Brown, California, 1975-1983, in praising Uwe Poerksen’s book, made the following statement.
“In the spirit of George Orwell, Poerksen lays bare the tyranny of the small number of words such as ‘development,’ ‘information,’ and ‘strategic plans,’ that now corrupt official thinking and even invade our very consciousness. His treatment of ‘plastics words’ is careful and chilling. Study it and wake up.”
George Orwell’s book “1984” sits beside my copy of Uwe Poerksen’s book, “Plastic Words: The Tyranny of a Modular Language,” for a reason. These books speak to the problem every citizen faces in representative governments, and modular language is the tool used to steal our governments, rights, liberties, and freedoms. If we do not, in Gov. Brown’s words, “Wake Up!” [emphasis mine] we will lose our governments, our voices, and our children will have to fight for that which we gave away.
Consider the following from Uwe Poerksen (1995, p 88-89), where the author speaks of experts acting as functionaries who shape reality through their words. Compare this to Biden, Trudeau, or any number of other politicians, media talking heads, and so-called “influencers,” and a cold shiver should creep up your spine.
The Expert
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- Silences anyone and everyone who disagrees with them
- Reforms the everyday world using concepts and vocabulary of the scientific world inappropriately
- Employs language with a wide radius of application
- Displaces words from a common understanding
- Speech is poor in content
- Speech reduces diversity to a common denominator
- Disembodies history from the context
- Transforms words into a social laboratory for experimentation
- Dispensing truth and moral right and wrong for progressive, backward, regressive, etc.
- Consistently appearing on the side of enlightenment
- Claims expertness and employs other experts to pompously fill the social function they supply as more important than everyone and every other problem and issue
- Calling upon other experts to raise individual prestige
- Awakens limitless needs
- Institutionalizes themselves interjecting their expertise into every problem
- Creates compound words as flexible instruments to manufacture new reality models
- Castigates history as useless, impertinent, and useless in the present tense
- Claims international appeal and anyone denying is considered out-of-date and out-of-touch
- Their positions are always new
- Their language lacks individual voice
The list above is not directly quoted but summated. I am in no way an expert, and Uwe Poerksen wields language like a surgeon wields a scalpel, with precision and exactness. I admit that my biases and understanding could vary wildly from the author in summating the list above. I have included this list precisely because it forms a framework for judging for yourselves the media, politicians, lawyers, and others who consider themselves an expert. My intent is to help you become more aware, awake, and knowledgeable of what is happening, empowering you to judge for yourself who is influencing you through words.
What you do with this information is your choice. If I have awakened you to the danger around you and me through these abusers, tyrants, and authoritarians, I have done my job. We, the owners of representative governments, must awake to how and where we are being abused to begin the laborious process of ending the abuse and taking back the reigns of the government. The first step in recovering from an addiction is to admit we have a problem. Waking up to the reality there is a problem is a job every citizen of a representative government must make for themselves.
What will you do now? I refuse to be a victim of abuse!
© Copyright 2022 – M. Dave Salisbury
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