One of the major FAIL points we find in the average human being is the propensity to play the game of one's enemy. It never ceases to astonish me as I witness this phenomenon. We humans are like sponges in that when something - an idea, a WORD, is put out there, most of us are quick to adopt it and nearly all will do so in time. I, for one, make every effort to avoid this, save when speaking of a specific term.
Consider the abuse of the word "awesome". Dopey "millennials" took a perfectly good word and semantically mangled it all to crap through their obscene ignorance such that today I feel constrained to avoid its use for fear that people will misunderstand my meaning. And I will readily admit my annoyance when I hear some bubble-headed youngin' tell me "awesome" when I tell them something that they like to hear.
The use of the terms of one's opponents and enemies, as those adversaries would use them, is a manner of playing their game. It is a loser's move, no matter how one tries to slice that mold-laced pie, unless one does so with great skill and a rather oblique strategy. Sadly, both are skills well beyond the ken of the average man. The moment you begin such usage, it is likely that you have already lost any argument you may have with them precisely because such use tacitly validates their terms and all that they carry, most of it tacit, vague, and ultimately wrong for any of a number of possible failings.
Let me once more emphasize the importance of how such terms are used. To use them as the enemy does, and would likely have you use them, is badness. To use them in the manner of dismantling those words and exposing them for the frauds that they are, is just fine, and indeed at times necessary. A key element in exposing and demolishing the Stupid in the arguments of others, is to expose their made up, phony baloney jargon. So when a "progressive" or some similarly misguided sort comes at you with shrieks of "social justice", for example, it behooves you to get right to the root of such nonsense by dismantling the very notions that such terms connote. Once you obliterate the conceptual foundation of the string "social justice", the rest of the demolition work should be comparatively simple and even easy... assuming of course that one is dealing with rational, intelligent, and decent human beings on the other side of the issue in question. Naturally, that is a bit of a sticky wicket because more often than not, the rational man finds himself in opposition to ranting, shrieking, flailing balls of emotion (mostly raw terror and its attendant venom-laced hatred) that care no whit for truth, fact, or logic. In such cases, arguing tends to rapidly become a fool's errand, so be careful in choosing those with whom you spend time in debate.
Let me once more emphasize the importance of how such terms are used. To use them as the enemy does, and would likely have you use them, is badness. To use them in the manner of dismantling those words and exposing them for the frauds that they are, is just fine, and indeed at times necessary. A key element in exposing and demolishing the Stupid in the arguments of others, is to expose their made up, phony baloney jargon. So when a "progressive" or some similarly misguided sort comes at you with shrieks of "social justice", for example, it behooves you to get right to the root of such nonsense by dismantling the very notions that such terms connote. Once you obliterate the conceptual foundation of the string "social justice", the rest of the demolition work should be comparatively simple and even easy... assuming of course that one is dealing with rational, intelligent, and decent human beings on the other side of the issue in question. Naturally, that is a bit of a sticky wicket because more often than not, the rational man finds himself in opposition to ranting, shrieking, flailing balls of emotion (mostly raw terror and its attendant venom-laced hatred) that care no whit for truth, fact, or logic. In such cases, arguing tends to rapidly become a fool's errand, so be careful in choosing those with whom you spend time in debate.
Using the terminology of the left like this is a very big mistake as it aids in normalizing their mental and moral cancers. The "left" makes up such nonsensical terms (and they are not the only ones, but the most egregiously guilty of it) such as "ableism" for several very effective reasons. One is that they always seek to run simplistic in their conceptual peddlings. This is absolutely essential to their success, because to use properly structured sentences to express their idiocies would expose the nonsense for what it is. But compressing a concept into a one-word slogan, or a simplistic phrase, enables them to deliver emotionallly-charged messages through obfuscation and innuendo, courtesy of the limited minds to which those messages are targeted. They plant the seed, the dullard filling in the blanks. This is a central pillar of Bernays' so-called "public relations", what we now know as "propaganda". This grosteque mockery and abuse of language is key to the gross manipulation of large populations' perceptions, and thereby their opinions on any matter one might wish to consider.
Therefore, I would highly recommend that people refrain from using the terms of one's enemies (and they ARE enemies, make you no mistake), for they were contrived with no other objective than to destroy those who would prefer to live freely.
Therefore, I would highly recommend that people refrain from using the terms of one's enemies (and they ARE enemies, make you no mistake), for they were contrived with no other objective than to destroy those who would prefer to live freely.
Tempting as it may be to do otherwise, I would refrain from taking the enemy's bait. Don't play their game, but force them to play by YOUR rules. With some learning and practice, taking command of inferior minds is really not that difficult, and if here I sound a mite stuck-up, I say so what? The simpletons of the tyrannical progressives are typically not the best and brightest among us, but they are vast in number, live in strict lockstep with each other, and are by those virtues very dangerous creatures.
Teach yourself the principles of the psychological games employed (on ALL sides, because the so-called "right" is also not clean of hand), learn to recognize when someone is attempting to play you, and what you can do to neutralize and countervail their actions effectively.
Don't be anyone's chump.
Don't be anyone's chump.
Until next time, please accept my best wishes.
