World War III – War of Words

Fighting on battles on the new frontier – Your Mind

Warning: I suggest you go to the bathroom and or get yourself a drink before reading this article because this is a long one. You can’t summarize this topic in snippets and social media blurbs. Its not for the weak minded or those of a short attention span. This is a complete thought formed over many years of observation and study.

Anyone who has ever read the George Orwell book 1984 can look at our world and draw some very frightening comparisons and conclusions. Though it is a book of fiction, life sometimes reflect art in our social capacities. Whether it be on our leaders re-writing history (or as the politicians call it “correcting the public record”) or battling with “newspeak” daily, these are just a couple of examples I would like to expound upon in my prose if you’ve never considered such things. Orwellianism is a term that gets used and or misused but people ready don’t know what is means. We are surrounded by Orwellianisms, and you just don’t know it unless you know what they are and look to see if they exist. Orwell was concerned about the use of language by the means of propaganda. The use of propaganda is a powerful means of indoctrination that is employed to this day by governments and religious leaders to achieve an agenda and as a means of control.

In the Fall of 2022, the greatest concern on most people’s mind is the looming recession from high economic inflation and the potential of World War III between the free world and the new axis powers of China, Russian, North Korea and Iran. Let me put your mind at ease by informing you that you need not worry about the start of World War III because it already began. Now when it physically began is up for debate. Some experts would say it was when China captured a US spy plane in 2001, if anyone remembers that during the Bush administration. Others might say it started via proxy in the war in Ukraine in 2022. But I believe that World War III began in 2008. World War III started with an assault of words on your mind and thoughts.

When President Barrack Obama made the statement that “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”, ever since a great schism began form in our country. It started very subtle and now it’s grown to a rift that has divided our country effectively in half. White vs Black. Red vs Blue. Right vs Left. Straight vs LGBTQ. Mob Rule vs the Police. Church vs State. Maybe those divisions were already there but they certainly were amplified and exaggerated in the years to come. Perhaps as a younger man I was naïve and oblivious to them in my travels across our country. More than likely, I was too busy working and living my life to care. Perhaps I was too optimistic choosing to see the best of the world. But I will say that even I started to notice things changing shortly thereafter, and where I noticed was in people’s use of words.

Words are my craft. Words are part of how I’ve made a living for myself for decades. With a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a focus on Public Relations / Marketing and Minor in History, you could say I’ve studied the “great communicators” from Adolf Hitler (past example) to President Obama (modern example). Great public speakers have always fascinated me. The ability to sway great swaths of people with your words is from my perspective a modern-day superpower. Even as a kid I loved President Reagan’s speeches. I can honestly say I didn’t know what he was talking about in a big picture sense, but I felt good while he was saying it. Whether or not you liked what President Reagan or Obama said, how they said it and their power to move people were great.

Now before someone cries fowl and makes the comment I am putting President Obama in the same category as Hitler, let me stop you right here. I can separate my feelings about someone and admire their abilities. If you look at a list of all the known great modern communicators, heroes and villains alike are on that list. To illustrate, I would like to reference the Star Trek episode “Space Seed” where the crew of the Enterprise encounters Khan. In a discussion about Khan Noonien Singh the senior bridge officers talked about him almost admirably to Spock’s shock. Captain Kirk explains to Spock the human ability to admire and respect someone and dislike them at the same time, to which he replies, “how illogical”. I also think about the line from the first Harry Potter movie when Ollivander says: "After all, He Who Must Not Be Named did great things – terrible, yes, but great.” This is another issue that’s crept up in our culture from this great schism: the inability to separate the facts from our feelings all because of words.

The only act of villainy I am accusing President Obama in my prose is this great schism that now divides our country. He did it with these simple words of great power and influence: “Vote. Voting is the best revenge.” Thus began the Us versus Them mentality. These divisive words have had a profound effect on our country. What did he mean? Well, let’s look at his words and their intent. Revenge means the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands. He didn’t say “Vote. It’s the greatest power the modern world has given the individual to protect their rights.” or “Vote. It’s the greatest way to ensure your values are represented in government.” President Obama can try to backtrack all he wants about his statement. He said it to get the response he wanted, to stir his supporters and the political base to go vote. As a Harvard Law School graduate, he knows as well as I do that words have meaning.

Back in 2014 a Malaysian Catholic priest said basically (and I’m paraphrasing) that Christians and Catholics should use the term “Allah” while referring to God to help ease the tensions between believers of Jesus Christ and Muslims. His argument was that in Jesus’s time that the term “Allah” was adopted into the Arabic language in reference to “God” and was used by Christians. I could break this story down further, but this is simply the illustration of my point. As one of the heads of the Catholic church pointed out at the time, though that this priest’s intentions may have been noble but in modern times that the “God” of the Christian faith had very different expectations and requirements than the “God” of Muslim faith of its believers. The term may have universal meaning for “god”, but the God of Christianity is a triune god (God of 3 persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit) whereas the God of Islam is a monotheistic god. Muslims perceive Christianity as a polytheistic religion. It would be inappropriate to use the same term for two different deities based on those perceptions. On the surface everything seems very innocent but once you start analyzing and digging deep, then the real issues start to surface. The use of specific words is a telltale sign of their intent.

Now that we’ve got people divided into two camps, how do we divide them even further? How do we identify who is on our side and who we’re voting against? With the great and powerful use of words, of course. If you spoke out against the agenda the term "phobic" was added to you. Phobic means having or involving an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. If you were against gay marriage, you were homophobic. If you were against unvetted immigrants coming into our borders from Muslims countries, you were Islami-phobic. If you are against transgender people, you are transphobic. The list just keeps going and keeps being added to every day it seems.

Just calling someone a bigot or a racist wasn’t enough. The term “Hate Speech” has even lost it flair for the dramatic. After a while, people just became numb to that type of criticism and loses its affect. Yes, I will say I have an “aversion” to something, a strong dislike. But the true genius in using the term “phobic” are its underlying implications. Look at the meaning with the particular focus on “extreme” and “irrational”. Not only are you now just irrational about a particular issue, but you are also now an extremist.  Whoever came up with this terminology was a pure genius. I wish I could point this out to a particular person and give them the credit. See I can admire and dislike the actions of a person all at the same time.

This is where people really need to push back on these “phobic” labels with facts. To say that there are not coherent positions against each of these aforementioned issues, is not rational in itself. There are reasonable arguments against them all, but my point is this is how this war is being fought before the facts are even presented. If you label your opponent before they’ve had a chance to plead the case, then he or she must expend a great amount of energy refuting the label instead of addressing the real issue. Again, the tactic of phobic labeling is pure genius.

Now in our language we’re switching from “phobic” to “-isms” as the most recent change in tactics. Have you not heard of “Trumpism” yet? "Christian Nationalism" is now being used like "conspiracy theorist" to corral all Christ believers into a box according to political commentator Jason Whitlock. What does it even mean? Nationalism is the identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations or peoples. Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent (in harmony) with the state. According to Christianity today, Christian nationalism is the belief that the American nation is defined by Christianity, and that the government should take active steps to keep it that way.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/february-web-only/what-is-christian-nationalism.html

If you are non-Christian in America, that sounds very frightening, doesn’t it? If you look at the definition then Christians are for the exclusion and or detriment of the interests of other people and or citizens. Fans of The Handmaiden’s Tale are probably saying “blessed be” about now. This is where terms exclusive and non-inclusive have entered the everyday lexicon of American speech in a big way.

Christian believers who are trying to stand up for truth, reason, morality and freedom are basically reflecting what stated in our Constitution: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” We could expound upon this and its false narrative against people of faith, failing to mention that the undergirding freedom of choice of the Judeo-Christian belief is prevalent part of the faith. But my point should be clear about this tactic. Again, another great use of words to divide people through -isms.

Even words are being hijacked and their meaning changed. Fascist is now popular but is being used to mean "far right" but really applies to any totalitarian regime. Even Orwell was wary of totalitarianism from the left as well as from the right. Ask any millennial what “fascist” means, and the term “far right” will be come up in the definition. Fascism is a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism according to Dictionary.com as of today. Do you see the key words in that definition? Are you triggered yet?

Think about some other terms that we use now in everyday speech. It’s a Post 9-11 world. It’s a Post Covid world. It’s a Post Christian world. Our language keeps changing to alter your thinking to corral you into having a certain perspective. You don’t want to be accused of “dead naming” someone who’s transitioned. If you can’t decide if you are homosexual or heterosexual and if bi-sexual isn’t indecisive enough, you can now be pan-sexual. Beware of “misinformation”!

So where is it all going? Political correctness lives again through identity politics. Look at the use of pronouns. He/him. She/her. They/them. Bleep/Bloop/Blop. In our march to a dystopia through globalism, we can now all be nothing and everything together. Its straight up communism being birthed by socialism in micro doses. The gatekeeper of the lexicon is big tech censoring your speech on social media and “inciting hate through algorithms” to quote Joe Rogan. If you question any of it, you are an extremist, a conspiracy theorist, etc.

I don’t care which side of the aisle that you are own. Right or left leaning can lead to totalitarianism which is what Orwell was warning us about in all his works. Every American should be frightened when free speech is being attacked or manipulated for the purposes of mind control through propaganda. Its not a partisan issue. Its an American issue because it affects us all regardless of gender, race, sexual preference, socioeconomic background and or faith or lack thereof. Its a tool that can be used by either side.

Let me give you some hope found in God’s word.

Luke 8:17 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Luke 12:2-3 Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

The truth will always come to light. Just be patient and trust in the LORD. It’s the divine nature of truth to be discovered and or revealed. If you know that you are standing on the truth, you must endure. Lies are a distortion of reality. If you look hard enough, you will see these aberrations of reality.

People don’t want to see or think about such things. It makes them uncomfortable. As Morpheus says in the movie The Matrix “You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it." It takes effort to go against the grain. It requires energy to rage against the machine.

I am by no means an expert on world politics or politics in general. I am nobody from nowhere. But I do interact almost daily with people throughout the world from China, Russian and Europe. One thing I know is always a constant with all people: they just want to live in peace and provide for their families. I try my best to have informed opinions. I can say I know people without a doubt.

Don't allow yourself to succumb to the rhetoric. Know thyself and speak with authority and truth. There is much more I could say about this subject but this article is long enough. I could be very wrong about all of this, but it’s just my thoughts from the bottom end.

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