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The War of the Words

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Physiocrat Posted: Tue, May 22 2012 6:27 AM

We, the belligerents against the State and its totalitarian humanism  are not just in a struggle against power and ideas but also words. Words are used to convey concepts which make communication possible and meaningful. However the leftist establishment has a dictionary of destruction whose sole purpose is to launch anti-concepts  which annihilate dissent and imprison the mind.  These words convey meaningless concepts but importantly retain emotional resonance. Possibly the most resonant of these at this time is the word racist- created to conjure up an image of a Caucasian man who so seethes with hatred that he burns his KKK Annual as the black words stain the pure, white page.  Yet, this word is used to slur people from those who believe that immigration is anything other than a great cultural boon to scientists who point out the biological differences between the races. Its purpose is to neutralise opposition to the State’s belief that man has nothing but a culturally constructed personality which can be moulded by pure will.  As such, the dividing of society severs the roots of an “out-dated” culture out of which the State can cultivate a new universal man made in their image.

However, since a State official left his USB stick on a train we have gained access to an extract of the classified Dictionary of the Universal Perpeople. (Remember perSON and Man are patriarchal).

Word

Image

Use Against

Anti-Semite

A blonde haired, blue eyed, man who spends all day deliberately burning to death circumcised Ginger Bread Men in his industrial gas oven.

Anyone who argues that less than 6m Jews died in the holocaust.

Discrimination

A Chauvinist Pig who employs an illiterate white chav as an engineer instead of the mobily challenged, lesbian Afro-Caribbean Cambridge Graduate.

Anyone who argues that employers should have the sole right to determine who works for them.

Far-right

A goose stepping Swastika outside the Houses of the Parliament to the sound of The Ride of the Valkyries.

Anyone who argues to reduce or stop immigration and those who support a return to the Western Christian Protestant culture.

Homophobe

A prying man who upon seeing equal expressions of love turns into chainsaw wielding psycho.

Anyone who argues that homosexuality isn’t an equally good lifestyle choice. 

Islamophobe

A rabid white supremacist who hated Indian takeaways so much he ran into a Mosque during Friday prayers and blew everyone to high Jannah (heaven).

Anyone who has read and understood the Qu’ran who isn’t a self-defining Muslim.

Sexist

A man who genetically engineers a cage of women to have the culinary skills of Heston Blumenthal, the cleaning ability of James Dyson, the looks of Aphrodite and the intellect of Wayne Rooney but who then tears out their tongues and repeatedly rapes them.

Anyone who argues that men and women are actually fundamentally different in any way.

Unregulated

Anarchy of production in which an online retailer deliberately sells pain relief pills that contain rat poison. 

Anyone who argues against further, or any, government control of business.

 

NB- A Semite is one who speaks a Semitic language such as Hebrew or Arabic. Now since most Jews do not speak Hebrew, most speak the non-Semitic Yiddish, it is further clear this word is misapplied and that anti-Semite is an anti-concept.

The only course of action to smash these, and other, anti-concepts is to remorselessly abuse the words by using them entirely out of context, like ‘gay’ is sometimes:

“Come on, don’t be gay”

which is said in frustration regarding pretty much anything. I suggest we could replace gay with racist or sexist in this situation. This will help to sever the emotional resonance of these and allow a demystification of the concepts, thereby causing the collapse of the totalitarian humanists as their ideas are truly contrary to reality itself.

Since words are incredibly powerful and can bind the minds of the population we need to choose the labels about ourselves, for ourselves. Historically, groups have been named by their opponents; for example, the word Puritan was coined by their detractors. We need to coin words that are not in common usage that can be clearly defined so that the word is associated with a clear concept. Now this isn’t easy as one can see of the debates of the relative merits of anarcho-capitalism, free market anarchism, voluntarism etc- but it is necessary. 

(As an aside I’d ditch anarcho-capitalism as capitalism is a debased term and was coined by Marx foremostly regarding a class of people, rather than an economic system. Moreover, people identify capitalism with the present economic system which none of us would defend.)

When people use words to denote real concepts the mental shackles will be broken and the goal of a free natural order will be one leap nearer.

Originally posted at http://the-eclectic-rambler.blogspot.co.uk

The atoms tell the atoms so, for I never was or will but atoms forevermore be.

Yours sincerely,

Physiocrat

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Physiocrat:
We, the belligerents against the State and its totalitarian humanism

No, we're the humanists. Statists, environmentalists, classists, etc. are anti-humanist.

"They all look upon progressing material improvement as upon a self-acting process." - Ludwig von Mises
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Nero,

I completely understand your point, no words are perfect but given the general understanding of humanism outside historical debate i.e atheism with knobs on I believe it is apt. Further the article linked therein does an excellent job of tracing the roots of the present foe.

The atoms tell the atoms so, for I never was or will but atoms forevermore be.

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