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Although your association of Chuggo Narwhals and Bieber is not true because you say it.
I actually think that the use of 'the professional' to try and change attributes of some things was pretty deep, basically it can redefine a perception, and many people see things through ideas of violence, so it works sometimes. And some of the changes in that movie have a negative impact.
But just thinking out loud. The most common way people redefine things is not to replace a word, but to take a few thoughts and create a linkage between them. Then people when they think of one thought, also think of the other. It is like a computer macro.
Every word has many meanings, but what it means to you depends what is stored in your macro. Every time you hear the word conservative, or liberal, you can't spend all the time to figure what those things mean to you, so you store feelings and thoughts in those labels. So when you hear liberal, the meaning is like the lines of code in a macro. Someone says liberal, and the feelings and thoughts stored in that word for the individual occur. In the case of the word liberal, the right wing radio has been programming that word for many peoples macros for years. They say with anger and disdain the word, and get those lines of code into that word.
So each person has their own stored feelings and thoughts for words and images. And many people try to load those macros with there own thoughts.
For example, do you support the pentagon? Ask a religious right person that. If that word only has the concept of a building for the military, that will be what is stored in their macro. But what is also stored in the macro is years of nationalism. So most people think by how they have had their macros programed by things like radio and TV, that often program thoughts into labels.
But back to the Pentagon, ask a Religious Right person if they support a symbol for the occult? Do they say loudly that they support that? How can that be? Because it depends what is in their macro. Note the macro for occult can mean many things, one of the meanings is secrecy. But the point is words are loaded with meaning by many people.
So look at your macros, what have people put into them so that when you hear a word like freedom for example, you then only think of some political party.
I hear some groups say they supports freedom and the Constitution. But what is in their macros for those words? what are those words to them? And do they think about what those words mean, and examine the lines of code(metaphor) for those words, or just let someone program them to get them to support what is in the macro without knowing it.
Examine your macros, do you support what you think you do?
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