Beatrice on her site www.benoit-et-moi/2-16.fr calls attention to this timely and insightful article...
The new language of slavery
The lexicon of current events serves to create slaves - above all,
mental and spiritual slaves, therefore pyschological, and ultimately physical slaves
by Massimo Viglione
Translated from
Homophobia, xenophobia, islamophobia, femminicide [but not masculinicide],
assesora (female counselor),
presidenta (female president),
giudicia (female judge), sexual identity, gay, gender identity, biological sex, gender disturbance, gender dysphoria, 'I am hetero', migrants, 'prejudice' of every kind, 'inter-religious discussion', multiculturalist, 'the role of women', etc. etc.
Nominalism was a doctrine with gnostic roots that had been condemned by the Church in the Middle Ages. In the simplest of conceptual terms,
it meant the heretical attempt to replace reality with the flatus vocis (literally, an emission of sound), i,e., the use of a mere name or word or sound that does not have a corresponding objective reality.
In short,
ideological lying.
Those who use words as an instrument of mass coercion know very well that words have weight that can influence the human mind heavily, sometimes even more than reality itself. Changing words or the meaning attached to words obviously does not change reality but rather, the ideological and psychological perception of reality by the individual and by society.
[This is the whole basis of propaganda and advertising, in general, whereby perception, or image, is more important than what and how things and persons actually are.]
To make the most famous and striking example, just think of the change in meaning conferred by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution on the words 'liberty', 'equality','democracy', 'the people'... starting from which the changes have not stopped.
With every new epochal revolution - political, religious, social, or even simply intellectual and moral - a new vocabulary
[familiar words given new meanings] arises.
Today the vocabulary of institutionalized nothingness is very rich and growing daily, operating changes on the mind of persons, especially the weakest and most gullible, distracted, naive or simply opportunistic.
And so, society changes to conform to the vocabulary. Our way of life changes - starting with our children, and with them, the future and the very history of mankind.
But since the epochal changes under way are endlessly subversive, they correspond to many subversive but empty words in a perfect revolutionary nominalism aimed at destroying the spiritual, moral, political, socio-economic and even ethnical-anthropological order of our world.
The terms I listed above, among so many that one could enumerate, serve to create slaves: slaves, above all, on the mental and spiritual, therefore phschological, and ultimately physical planes.
The fact that these nominalisms are increasingly supported by totalitarian legislation - whereby opponents are considered social monsters who deserve to be hanged (just try saying you are homophobic or xenophobic!) - is the incontrovertible proof of the point I am making, namely, that their task is to create slaves.
And who do we think are these slaves? If, for various reasons, we are not bothered at all that we have become or are becoming slaves, at least let us be concerned for our children and grandchildren, who are enslaved from birth onwards and will never realize that they are enslaved.
This thought should concern everyone, and not just lightly. But to be concerned is not enough. We must counteract. Soon. All of us.
[HOW? The current thoughtmasters, because they also happen to be the temporal powers-that-be, control virtually all the means of communication and information in the global village. Can the intangible power of truth alone prevail over the concrete reality of the overwhelming forces and resources available to the legions of untruth?
Yes, Christ is with us when we fight for the truth which he himself embodies, but concretely, the balance of forces at present is too asymmetrical for the truth to prevail over untruth and unreason. Perhaps we can take heart from the fact that our side continues to hold its own in the battle of ideas that is sundering the Church, even if the 'enemy' is led by no less than the man who happens to be pope. But we cannot indulge in false hopes.]
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 26/10/2016 04:27]