US culture is truly suffering from foul language, that is, some language is stinking and loathsome to the senses… especially “common” sense. Perfectly good words like “freedom,” “democracy,” and most references to “God” and such have putrefied with repetition by fatheads, fools and fakes. The fatheads are those who cannot make change for half-a-brain. The fools believe what they want to believe despite all evidence in the carbon world. The fakes will say (or do) anything to maintain social dominance.
The fakes use the fatheads and fools like disposable diapers, filling and discarding them, but now the fakery is so tangled that “Framers” like Lakoff or Lunz are hard at work to either come up with a remedy or reinforcement. Before the 2006 “election,” many “progressives” took the “framing” idea seriously. Unfortunately, they didn’t take it seriously enough to realize the fakes were playing them for fools and are still doing it right now.
Frances Moore Lappé wrote in 2005 that it was “Time for Progressives to Grow Up.” It was then and still is now, but that may mean abandoning some folkways held sacred to the bleeding-heart. “Can we move beyond nuclear family metaphors?” No need. For example US culture (there IS no “government”) is neither a “strict father” nor a “nurturing parent.” US culture is a huge, fat teenager strung out on methamphetamine and glue… rummaging through our purse for dope and video game money.
If US culture is too big to take to the woodshed, the least we can do is cut off its allowance and change all the locks. It may take measures even more severe, but we must clearly be the adults, which also means we have to stop pretending there’s tea in the cup when the fakes dressed up in Mommy and Daddy’s clothes invite us to a “tea party” (election). It is also time to stop telling the fatheads and fools the invisible cookies are yummy to avoid “hurting their feelings.”
Will they throw a tantrum? They’re throwing a tantrum now. Will they get more brutal and repressive? They will become no more brutal and repressive than they already are. Pandering to the fakes, fatheads and fools does nothing but encourage them. Yes, they are more dangerous when threatened, but we should have learned by now: if no threat exists, the fakes will make one up… and the fatheads and fools will believe it as long as it is more comfortable to believe the threat than deny it.
In 2005, Lappé wrote, “The Left must get much better, not just at placing its issues in a compelling moral frame, but at exposing and holding the radical Right accountable for its lies and deception – without, and here is the tricky part, making those who have been manipulated feel ridiculed and put down.” Nonsense. There is no way to expose the fakes without the fatheads and fools taking it personally. Besides, when things reach the tipping-point, fakes fools and fatheads alike will deny their part in the crime.
The fakes will lie as usual about their crimes to save their own hides. The fatheads will be too stupid as usual to see any crime at all. The fools will deny complicity because they don’t want to be complicit. Don’t worry about welcoming them into the tent. When their tent falls down, they’ll be in yours soon enough—either to take it by force or to deny they were ever in the “other” tent in the first place. When language runs afoul of the Truth, why “debate” Truth with fatheads, fools and fakes?
Would you discuss “air” with and oyster?
