Do you see connections everywhere you look? Are you wondering about the great awakening and how it will affect you? Thanks for joining me, Anne Corbin and my guests. As we offer you different perspectives and analyses of current issues, together with advice on health, wealth, and relationships, as we navigate those storms together, not forgetting the systems available to us from metaphysics Anne our own higher selves. I've been thinking quite a bit about language and the words we choose and use.
A few weeks back, I was talking about spelling and how we can consider many words as having a near magical effect. Remember magic like miracles can be described as physics for which they haven't yet found a formula. And of course, magic has been associated with trickery and sleight of hand. While some people are fascinated by it and want to learn how to practice the really high level varieties such as performed in the magic circle.
The involvement of others amounts to a little more than attending the odd magic show, or maybe even watching a hypnotist. Hypnosis is a very entertaining spectacle when performed in front of an audience, but it's also an extremely useful therapy in helping people who are stressed, depressed, struggling with phobias, suppressed memories, PTSD, and so on.
The therapist will select carefully worded questions to guide his or her patient as They work through past or imagined situations designed to free them from whatever it is that bliting their life. In other words, to set them free. And this is where I really want to go today. I want to reflect on the freedom that we used to take for granted in terms of what we were or were not allowed to say.
When did we allow political correctness to extend such a ridiculous amount of troll over our everyday speech, and why did we let it happen? When did it begin? It's in suitable creep. We used to laugh about, what, 25, 30 years ago, If a friend or colleague happened to utter a sentence or opinion that transgressed this new unwritten convention that there were certain rule, certain words that you simply shouldn't use anymore.
But political correctness has long since ceased to be a joke, unless you really, really know the company you're with you had better choose your words very carefully because there are those who have made a profession out of being offended.
What used to be commonly known as manners or politeness or maybe even sensitivity is something I'm totally unequivocally in favor of, but I believe it wrong to feel so spied upon, so worried about consequences that normal social interaction with friends, acquaintances, and clients becomes stilted, guarded, and un naturally Anne. Churchill Anne George Bernard Shaw are both known for remarking I disagree entirely with what you say, but I'll defend it. I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
It's not original to either of them. Some say it dates right back to voltaire, but apparently it doesn't. Whatever. It really doesn't matter. It's the sentiment that matters, and it describes perfectly our entitlement to tell it how it is. As a child, I learned a saying, and I bet loads of people my age learned the same saying, sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me. But we were tougher then.
We were raised to be independent and not go running a mummy or daddy or teacher at the tiniest excuse. In America, they are rightly proud of the 1st amendment Anne this is under attack right now amongst, that and similar freedoms, the 1st amendment protects freedom of speech.
The most recent example of 21st century lunacy that springs to mind, and I could produce dozens, is that of an eighty one year old lady in waiting to the late queen who was making conversation at an official function with a young lady whose dark complexion indicated that her ancestry lay in a distant land. The lady in waiting asked the younger lady or guest where she was from. And as a result of that innocent question, The lady in waiting was forced to resign from her position.
Someone decided that the question was insensitive. Because the guest identified as British. From memory, I think it was a third party who made the complaint, but heaven's Does anyone really think that an eighty one year old lady was intent on causing a fence The complaint was Mendacious Anne probably brought for no other reason than the desire for a very brief period in the limelight, more celebrity culture.
In the US, the trend marches on to stop referring even to females as women and males as men. For example, over there Anne maybe here, who knows, it's preferable to talk about pregnant people rather than pregnant women. Puts me in mind of a short video clip I saw on Telegram this Corbin. A very androgynous primary school teacher was talking to a bunch of kids aged around 4 or 5.
On her lap was a doll that was reminiscent of the Robertson's logo that they had to change because it was offensive But this doll was life size with a black face and straight hair wearing glasses. I'm sure the teacher was going to make a point of that in due course, but we didn't see it. At this point, the teacher was telling the kids as somehow that this thing had been asked whether it was a boy or a girl, and it had said, I'm just a kid. Does it matter?
Anne one of the real kids then said, but kids can be both boys and girls, and another kid then piped up. They can also be non binary. Please. This is gender indoctrination being thrust upon really, really young children. And the teacher then continued, big surprise here, Yes, Robin. Here is Anne. Oh, sorry. Robin, I think, was the black doll. Yes. Robin here. The teacher then continued. Yes. Robin here is non binary, just like me. Anne they aren't sure if they are a boy or a girl.
Well, you couldn't make it up. This being taught to four or five year olds. Now as we know, grammar is also under attack as society is being funneled into this crazy world of acceptance and tolerance and uniformity. It also represents loss of individuality, loss of freedom of expression, where everyone is meant to adjust to sameness and dullness and mediocrity.
Interestingly, on a different channel a few days back, there was a girl explaining socialism, and she told the story of how For the first time ever, a university professor had failed his entire class at the end of the semester. They had all agreed to an experiment where each member of the class would accept the average grade, assignment after assignment for, maybe the next 3 months. There would be no more top of the class Anne no grade a's, at least to start with.
But in time, it was possible that the average would keep rising, and maybe the whole class would reach B plus. Which wasn't at all bad for a term's work. So the first assignment was graded. Everybody received a see. And the professor said this was exactly what he had expected, and let's see what happens next time. But the problem was the a students were disgruntled because they thought, why should I work so hard? There's no recognition Anne I'm only raising the grades of the others.
And the D and E students thought, Hey, this is great. I don't need to work. My grades will be better than I deserve. I'm all in favor of this experiment. And the trouble, of course, was that the whole class did less and less work. And by the end of the semester, the mark for the final assignment was a fail. That was an average f for everyone.
Now, I believe I've heard this story before, and I don't even think it's true, but it's a great illustration of the race to the bottom, the reality of socialism, and of the downsides of stifling competition and reward. So I began this podcast talking about the importance of words and language, which is being stifled by political correctness. Words are being edited out of our language.
That is they're being censored by this set of rules that only a portion of the population, and I think it's quite a small portion, but it's only those who actually are in favor. And this brings me right back to George Orwell, who I've mentioned in more than one earlier podcast. His book 1984 that just about everyone has heard of now describes new speech a system of monitoring language designed specifically to limit the ability of people to think for themselves.
Orwell says political chaos is connected with the decay of language. New speak allows people to use only a tiny fraction of the total of the words once in common usage. And this so flattens and constricts language that words to express, for example, moral Aesthetic Anne analytical distinctions or nuances is banned.
Imagine attempting a discussion on the rights and wrongs of Corbin, say, with massively limited vocabulary where you can only use okay and not okay to express your thoughts and feelings How boring would such a discussion become? It wouldn't last more than a few minutes because it couldn't. This is where we are headed people. They are causing words to fall out of usage. So that new generations will have no knowledge of them. We think with words.
So remove the words, and you remove the ability to think. For many years, four letter words have been used as adjectives, so the speaker doesn't have to think Anne the listener doesn't have to bother And I've noticed that in the last decade or so, maybe for longer, but it's now very noticeable. That one particular four letter word, s h Anne t, is used to replace nouns as well. I have to unpack my from the car. Unfortunately, I left some behind.
One could just say my stuff or my things, but no. They have to use the 4 letter word, but the point is it's it's considered acceptable to no longer describe the item or items that you're talking about, not to give them a name. What's the use behind that, except for the the speaker, it's an entitlement to be lazy, but I'm, I'm arguing from the point of view of the decay of language.
And when I still worked in a professional office, If such comments slipped out, then people would generally say, pardon my French or apologize to any ladies present, but I truly think such niceties and reservations are in grave danger of falling away completely. So as with so many challenges, it's another race to the bottom. Do we choose to make a stand or go with the flow? In other words, join in the race to the bottom.
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