As early as mid-March 2022, 'vaccinated' patients constituted around 82-83% of all Covid-related hospitalisations (in Norway). It's worse now. Let's hope more people will wake up before too long…
There's a certain irony to it, too. Restricting oneself to using words in such a way that ones uses words the way they carry their own meaning means having to learn lots and lots of words and the associated usage, thought, and so on.
Using a word as a simple marker of "GoodRightCorrect" or "WrongBadEvil" liberates you from having to learn anything but who is the Bad Guy, who is the Token Victim and what's the current Virtue to be signalled. The reptile brain replacing your frontal lobe so to speak.
Media has for about 40 years, at rapidly inceasing pace post-internet/smartphones, devolved more and more into using Orwell's theories on newspeak and duckspeak as a consciously chosen method and tool.
Along the way they picked up (or caught...) narrative discourse theory and put it to good use without realising that it is a tool not unlike the ring of the Nibelung - it may well become your master instead.
Look at any article really. It has a victim, a hero (modern meaning of hero, not classical) and a story, either tragical or farcical or heroical.
Therefore, a journalist may well be liberal while calling for the state to herd the old and infirm into concentration camps over winter, as is now being prepared in Germany - liberal only means "GoodRightCorrect", nothing more, and journalism (especially editorial) simply means branding opposition with "WrongBadEvil" as the associated meaning with said opposition's labels and symbols.
As such, while it may have some worth in enclosed discourse and debate to stickc to the real meaning of words, in public debate or when talking to the majority of people - those fed their world-view via media, not seeking knowledge on their own - it is far better to use the saem method as media: label the journalist, politician, 'expert', other title in question "WrongBadEvil" by mentioning something outrageous they have said or done which runs counter to their projected persona. Lauterbach not being anything near up to date on his shots f.e.
Sorry if I come across as some kind of Besserwisser, that's not the intent - it's just that this murder of meaning that we are living hit so very close to home for me, it's like a conditioned reflex (making me an example of my own hypothesis to boot).
No, you did not come across as a Besserwisser at all (my high school German helped a little😎).
I understand and agree with you about the ‘murder of meaning’.
A good example really is the term ‘liberal’. In American English a liberal was considered to be a supporter of free markets, free speech , individual liberty, freedom of religion, and limited government. I am a classical liberal.
The political Left (supporting collectivism, socialism, ever expanding government) appropriated the term because it was considered ‘good’..... and now everyone calls them ‘liberals’.
Question,
How in the hell has Lauterbach gotten away with not getting his boosters? You would think that with his Covid positions (and new provisions) that the public would be screaming for his resignation.
We use the term "drev*" here in Sweden for when media is acting like both beaters and a drive of hunters - no "drev" no scandal and no outrage. Since media acting in concert can make a 35 year old parking ticket seem like a politician is a career criminal, politicians today walk on eggshells and are driven/herded by media, reciprocating by making laws which creates special protected castes of journalists and publications, subsidising "trusted" media with tax money.
If you listen carefully, you'll hear Julius Streicher laughing his ass off in Hel.
*Drev refers to beat hunting as well as crank shaft - both fits journalism very well...
Eh, no worries. Never really understood that reflex-like reaction some people have if a (to them) foreigner can't tell them and their neighbours apart. What's th big deal, you know? Just tell them, maybe some anecdote highlighting a cultural difference and you've made a new friend instead, right?
I use Streicher as a warning example when debating with swedish journos, on the few occasions they actually bother to debate instead of demonise. He thought he was right, virtuous and fought for a good cause. And was hanged for his trouble.
Haven't visited Germny since right after the Wall came down. I still remember the ealtion and relief and joy felt all over Europe those first years after 1989-1991, despite Jugoslavia.
Betraying that promise of a new Golden Age is a crime I'll never forgive our elites.
Thanks, and you are right. I was afraid that I had offended you. I’m happy to see that I haven’t.
The closest thing that we have to ‘drev’ is ‘feeding frenzy’ or ‘blood in the water’....both shark references.
(I suspect that you know this already, your English is better than most...and maybe mine)
Our journalists aren’t really that introspective, they operate on instinct.
I would be surprised if 1 in 10 of ours even know who Julius Streicher was. Not entirely their fault. History has been de-emphasized in schools to the point that many people date the beginning of history with their birth. I also think that you’re right about the Wall and its aftermath.
Visiting the U.K. at the moment. A friend (late 60s) remarked out of the blue that everyone she knows is unwell or has some condition. She and her husband are probably on their 4th (they were very keen and luckily do seem ok). I’m not jumping to any conclusions but just wonder! Glad to see another acquaintance announce that it was all BS and that everyone gets it regardless - some are waking up at long last!
Authoritarianism and tyranny is where the media’s ‘liberal bias’ was heading even before Covid appeared.
‘Liberal’ is this context was always a misnomer. There is/was nothing ‘liberal’ about the political Left.
Many leftists called themselves ‘liberals’ so everyone else just followed along......Hence the ‘liberal bias’.
There's a certain irony to it, too. Restricting oneself to using words in such a way that ones uses words the way they carry their own meaning means having to learn lots and lots of words and the associated usage, thought, and so on.
Using a word as a simple marker of "GoodRightCorrect" or "WrongBadEvil" liberates you from having to learn anything but who is the Bad Guy, who is the Token Victim and what's the current Virtue to be signalled. The reptile brain replacing your frontal lobe so to speak.
Media has for about 40 years, at rapidly inceasing pace post-internet/smartphones, devolved more and more into using Orwell's theories on newspeak and duckspeak as a consciously chosen method and tool.
Along the way they picked up (or caught...) narrative discourse theory and put it to good use without realising that it is a tool not unlike the ring of the Nibelung - it may well become your master instead.
Look at any article really. It has a victim, a hero (modern meaning of hero, not classical) and a story, either tragical or farcical or heroical.
Therefore, a journalist may well be liberal while calling for the state to herd the old and infirm into concentration camps over winter, as is now being prepared in Germany - liberal only means "GoodRightCorrect", nothing more, and journalism (especially editorial) simply means branding opposition with "WrongBadEvil" as the associated meaning with said opposition's labels and symbols.
As such, while it may have some worth in enclosed discourse and debate to stickc to the real meaning of words, in public debate or when talking to the majority of people - those fed their world-view via media, not seeking knowledge on their own - it is far better to use the saem method as media: label the journalist, politician, 'expert', other title in question "WrongBadEvil" by mentioning something outrageous they have said or done which runs counter to their projected persona. Lauterbach not being anything near up to date on his shots f.e.
Sorry if I come across as some kind of Besserwisser, that's not the intent - it's just that this murder of meaning that we are living hit so very close to home for me, it's like a conditioned reflex (making me an example of my own hypothesis to boot).
Rikard,
No, you did not come across as a Besserwisser at all (my high school German helped a little😎).
I understand and agree with you about the ‘murder of meaning’.
A good example really is the term ‘liberal’. In American English a liberal was considered to be a supporter of free markets, free speech , individual liberty, freedom of religion, and limited government. I am a classical liberal.
The political Left (supporting collectivism, socialism, ever expanding government) appropriated the term because it was considered ‘good’..... and now everyone calls them ‘liberals’.
Question,
How in the hell has Lauterbach gotten away with not getting his boosters? You would think that with his Covid positions (and new provisions) that the public would be screaming for his resignation.
We use the term "drev*" here in Sweden for when media is acting like both beaters and a drive of hunters - no "drev" no scandal and no outrage. Since media acting in concert can make a 35 year old parking ticket seem like a politician is a career criminal, politicians today walk on eggshells and are driven/herded by media, reciprocating by making laws which creates special protected castes of journalists and publications, subsidising "trusted" media with tax money.
If you listen carefully, you'll hear Julius Streicher laughing his ass off in Hel.
*Drev refers to beat hunting as well as crank shaft - both fits journalism very well...
Sorry, I thought you were in Deutschland😏hence the question about Lauterbach....
The mental picture of Streicher laughing in hell is priceless ...
Eh, no worries. Never really understood that reflex-like reaction some people have if a (to them) foreigner can't tell them and their neighbours apart. What's th big deal, you know? Just tell them, maybe some anecdote highlighting a cultural difference and you've made a new friend instead, right?
I use Streicher as a warning example when debating with swedish journos, on the few occasions they actually bother to debate instead of demonise. He thought he was right, virtuous and fought for a good cause. And was hanged for his trouble.
Haven't visited Germny since right after the Wall came down. I still remember the ealtion and relief and joy felt all over Europe those first years after 1989-1991, despite Jugoslavia.
Betraying that promise of a new Golden Age is a crime I'll never forgive our elites.
Thanks, and you are right. I was afraid that I had offended you. I’m happy to see that I haven’t.
The closest thing that we have to ‘drev’ is ‘feeding frenzy’ or ‘blood in the water’....both shark references.
(I suspect that you know this already, your English is better than most...and maybe mine)
Our journalists aren’t really that introspective, they operate on instinct.
I would be surprised if 1 in 10 of ours even know who Julius Streicher was. Not entirely their fault. History has been de-emphasized in schools to the point that many people date the beginning of history with their birth. I also think that you’re right about the Wall and its aftermath.
That's right. Just another word hijacked by the propagandist profiteers.
you sure lack some historical context...
I’m sorry, I should have made it clear that I’m referring to the USA in my comments....your mileage may vary😎
Totalitarianism and children must die to protect the profits!
Visiting the U.K. at the moment. A friend (late 60s) remarked out of the blue that everyone she knows is unwell or has some condition. She and her husband are probably on their 4th (they were very keen and luckily do seem ok). I’m not jumping to any conclusions but just wonder! Glad to see another acquaintance announce that it was all BS and that everyone gets it regardless - some are waking up at long last!