The use of language to manipulate society, such as the politically correct media do, for example with euphemisms ("neurodivergent" instead of "insane" or "moronic") , mimetic phrases ("gender-affirming care"), signalling language (5 grand), etc? This is done to destroy our sense of what is true! This is done to destroy our morals! Fight back every way. Why not? Fight words with words. Fight words with fire. Fight words with fists.
You are a child and you're trying too hard
>You are a child
Isn't one of the main goals of progressive liberalism to maintain this sort of mindset? Imagine not getting over such childish notions, such as being "a child" -- I guess it would make sense. Children have potential, whereas adults rarely do.
>you're trying too hard
No. He isn't trying enough. None of us are. What are you doing? Nothing! That's what! Get back on the horse and go for it again.
if you're trying to talk like bowden you can't do it via text it is a rhetorical style done spur of the moment and slightly drunk
I was trying to find a picture on my phone that was not of a young girl's butthole.
You sound like an edgy teen who just finished reading 1984 for the first time. Please grow up a bit before you decide to post here again, kek. Absolute midwit tier argument here.
the delivery is cringy but the sentiment is valid
Confucius spoke of the need for rectification of names, you might want to look into some of what he said and later commentators' elaborations.
12 year old discovers rhetoric
I don't know what any of those things mean, so I guess I'm fine.
Look at the reactions in the thread. The mindless golems think they're le educated elite because they accept the wordgames and reframing of reality without thinking.
The ideas now fully put into practice were argued for openly in mainstream forums forever. A common idea was that blacks fall into roles defined by expectations so if we change expectations like through media narratives everything will magically fix itself. Lying in the name of "progress" is now so normalized that the lies have scrambled the brains of the liars so much they don't even realize when they're lying.
12 year old discovers rhetoric and thinks he's the first and only person to discover rhetoric.
Lying is not rhetoric. Your brain is mush.
"Lying" doesn't seem like quite the right word for what he's talking about either.
>Lying is now so normalized that the lies have scrambled the brains of the liars so much they don't even realize when they're lying.
Welcome to israelite world , or Israel, where people dont know words have meaning, subtext, and spew out words just to seem smart , have the last word and win arguments by frustration.
Underage posters should be banned
One of the most perfidious linguist tricks is the redefinition of terms; for example:
NATION
>originally this word meant a cosanguinous tribe of blood-related families all descended from the same patriarch
>now this term is wrongly used interchangeably with terms such as "country" (which is a geographical region) and "state" (which is a political collective expressing authority over a geographical region and its inhabitants -- who themselves are not necessarily all from the same tribe)
Look also at how other terms have also been "redefined" by the vile vermin using language as a cultural weapon, such as, oh... "WOMAN."
Whenever someone attempts to redefine something like that, you should immediately point them out to everyone else as being either dangerously insane or even more dangerously evil.
just think without using words moron
how do you think of nation without words, moron, how do you then convey your thoughts?
If your nation is purely a construct of words without any observable existence in real life, then maybe it isn't real.
>words change meaning over time
brilliant discover anon, clearly a merry bundle of stick of complete new level
you just know it all, don't you?
I am All, I can confirm anon knows me.
Because “moronic” has nothing to do with “neurodivergent” and is just built on ignorance
Bit of a thread hijack though although picrel is a good start, what are some good books on the intersection of rhetoric and ethics?
No one? Ok then
>Bribery? No, it's lobbying.
>Rebels? No, they're terrorists.
>Nepotism? No, it's networking.
>Invading? No, it's intervention.
>Pillage? No, it's conquest.
I miss Bowden like you wouldn't believe
Clear them out.
Me too, me too.
>you are a child
>you sound like a edgy teen
>12 year old discovers
>underage posters should be banned
Weaklings filled with resentment for life project their own infantalism and poisonous pathologies onto their chosen enemies. Don't worry, the Universe has already defeated them.
12 year old discovers rhetoric and displays his impotent rage after nobody pats him on the back
Read this now. Very short. Probably what you are looking for and will cure your own brain damage you've decided to spew out here as well.
STIRRING STUFF I AM MOVED YOU ARE NOT LIKE YOUR CLASSMATES AT ALL YOU HAVE "THE GIFT"
we are winning the linguistics war. Remember 10 years ago people proudly identified themselves as Social Justice Warriors. They put SJW in their twitter bios and linked in profiles. Today that term is dead, because we realized everyone who used that term was a turbo cringe Karen and used it against them.
so true bro! WE totally owned those turbo cringe karens, kek!
I think that's just the euphemism treadmill, or something.
Neuro divergent is for spergs.
The manipulative language for morons is "special."
I’m sure you’re pretty special yourself
yeah language is psychic warfare read into etymology go a bit insane
Despite your teenage phrasing, you’re partly onto something. What language really controls is thought and perception of something.
Notice how phrases like “Gender affirming” make transition procedures sound better? Because normally when you see it or hear “transgender procedure” it makes you view it in a negative light, so you control the language to control perception of something into whatever you want it to be.
This and what else is making the left win more and more is the virtue of intolerance. Not the intolerance that you normally think of against other groups but intolerance of thought.
They will not abide by others openly speaking or thinking counter to what they believe is the truth and will correct or cancel and ridicule you so that others see their viewpoint as “correct”
If you want to make a culture that will truly last, a core principle needs to be that Intolerance is a virtue and not allow deviating thoughts and opinions to arise and spread. This is why christianity is fading in the developed world and Islam is still a prevalent ideology
Is it warfare or is it just people with a different point of view explaining it using words that they feel are appropriate
IT IS WARFARE!!!! PICK A SIDE ANON!!!! YOURE ONLY ALLOWED TO HAVE ONE OF TWO OPINIONS!! DONT BE A FENCE SITTER AND PICK A SIDE OR ELSE YOURE A DYED HAIR troony!!! AND IF I BELONGED TO THE OTHER SIDE I WOULD THINK YOURE A NAZI RIGHT NOW!!!
Yep. That about summarizes why everything has turned to shit in the modern world. Nicely done
Chuds are the real Foucauldians.
Then go commit a terrorism you pussy
Bowden always sounds like a pretentious homosexual, doesn't he?
If you actually care to learn about something real and tangible that is ruining America, rather than the smoke screen that is "culture war" which has so thoroughly distracted you already. Read One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1 and 2 by Whitney Alyse Webb. Then maybe you'll understand who's actually pulling the strings in the government.
>words changed their ordinary meaning to justify acts
>the art of changing words, so that the most awful crimes would be excused by the appearance of lawfulness
Read Thucydides and his analysis on the underhanded shifting of meanings in words when two factions begin to sling shit.