9 May
2013
9 May
'13
10:27 a.m.
I would've been tortured by 4th grade, and not just by my peers??? I am all for
rejecting institutionally inserted newspeak. I really like buckminster fuller's way
of doing it where he replaces a common name with a truly descriptive name. This causes
the idea to sink in deeper but takes fucking forever - grasping for my operating manual
here the first one i find is:
This "sovereign" - meaning top-weapons enforced - "national" claim
upon humans born in various lands leads to ever more severely specialized servitude and
highly personalized identity classification
not the best example...but here is a true gem: renewable energy = "vast amounts of
income wealth as Sun radiation and Moon gravity to implement our forward success"
taking control of the newspeak is great but for more effective communication prior to
viral-level word distribution, people have to understand the nature of the problem at hand
in common terms repurposed to describe more accurately, maybe even be left to their own
devices to collectively form their own newspeak to describe things that become commonly
enough understood to require their own word? takes more work to lay the cultural
substrate in my opinion, but seeing the existing coverage authoritarian substrate upon the
lands i am 100% down with self-defensive newspeak. shall we brainstorm?
suggested pattern: imposed newspeak -> actual description of thing -> alternate,
more accurate newspeak
clean coal = coal whose combustion byproducts are buried rather than vented to the
atmosphere = drinkingwell coal (just getting warmed up, ok?)
inflation = artificial human wealth reduction through repeated issuance of wealth credits
to nonhuman entities at pre-issuance value, which equilibrate to reduced post-issuance
value by the time they reach human hands = bankskimming
war on terror = use of overwhelmingly disproportionate violence to respond to and/or
preempt violence against the population funding it through direct action and fear-based
behavior influence= state-sponsored terrorism
lawn = high mowing/land/herbicide cost unproductive area maintained for solely aesthetic
purposes = nongarden area
taxes = violence-and/or-mobility restriction enforceable requirement to turn over a
fraction of work benefit to multiple remote yet geographically encompassing organizations
- each with their own overhead costs including physical structures, paper consumption, and
advanced violence delivery personnel and equipment - for uses determined by arguments
between strangers = well...taxes pretty much sums it up
just my 0.0002 individual production credits
May 9, 2013 12:52:40 AM, g2g-public01(a)att.net wrote:
Romy, Yos-
Good example. Also an example of what
happens when power is wielded
without checks & balances, by people who are so enamored of a
theory that it obscures the real world.
The Khmer Rough also routinely slaughtered
or interned &
tortured anyone found wearing glasses, because they believed that
glasses were a sign of an attempt to assert status by the
intellectual and technical classes. But the fact is that by middle
age, almost all men and probably at least a majority of women
require the use of glasses to read and perform other short-distance
visual tasks. That inconvenient fact didn't get in the way of the
Khmer Rouge's theory.
Everyone reading this email is a member of
the "intellectual and
technical class," even if a large plurality of us are living on
working class income or less. And the vast majority of us are going
to live long enough to need glasses. Fortunately none of us has the
power to compel any of us to use words a certain way, even though we
can & do argue (as peers) about that.
-G.
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On 13-05-08-Wed 10:21 PM, Romy Ilano
wrote:
There is a yin and a yang to everything.
Here are a few examples of the "dark side" of
reshaping language... ;
I've read a lot of history about
the Chinese Cultural
Revolution and the Cambodian Khmer Rouge... these groups
were very interested in reforming a corrupt society, finding
new ways of doing things. They are not shining examples but
I can say that their intentions started out pure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge_rule_of_Cambodia#Establishing_the_…
On
the surface, society in Democratic Kampuchea was strictly ;egalitarian.
The ;Khmer
language, like many in Southeast Asia, has a complex
system of usages to define speakers' rank and social
status. These usages were abandoned. People were
encouraged to call each other "friend", or "comrade"
(in
Khmer, មិត្ដ mitt), and to avoid traditional signs of
deference such as bowing or folding the hands in
salutation.
Language
was transformed in other ways. The Khmer Rouge invented
new terms. People were told they must "forge" (lot dam)
a new revolutionary character, that they were the
"instruments" (opokar) of the Angkar, and that
nostalgia for pre-revolutionary times (chheu satek arom,
or "memory sickness") could result in their receiving
Angkar's "invitation" to be deindustrialised and to live
in a concentration camp.
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