Time to end linguistic terrorism

[Nuclear Unicorn]

No matter where you stand on the issue of the government using language and grammar to exert mind control over the populace, shooting people is not the answer.

[Solly Mack]

1. You make a really good point.

[Fumesucker]

2. Remind me again why we spend as much as the rest of the world combined..

On organized means of killing.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. Because the government is using grammar to control us into doing it?

:shrug:

[Fumesucker]

4. My point being that shooting people is clearly the answer to some problems..

Else we wouldn't be spending such vast sums on various sorts of shooting and other mayhem. Indeed, the sums involved would lead an objective observer to think that shooting is the answer to a great many problems.

So, how do we know when shooting is appropriate and when it is not?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. The depends.

Where do you stand on using grammar to mind-control entire populations?

And is the mind-control issue severe enough to take up arms?

[handmade34]

6. corporations

use marketing to control almost all of our thoughts, act and behaviors... they should be the ones we are angry at...

and we can (and should) get rid of them without shootings/killing

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. If the corporations control the populace how will you get rid of the controllers?

Isn't one of the primary objectives of mind control to insulate the controller from displacement?

[handmade34]

15. insulate them from responsibility?

yes, but that is specifically our job; to be aware and suggest ways in which they can not control...

[niyad]

7. exactly how is the govt controlling us through language? do you mean the decline of language, the

dumbing down and illiteracy? THAT is how we are being controlled?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. No. No.

They use arbitrary rules of grammar to continually delegitimaize language constructs so as to shift meanings and thus trap people and suppress conscience dreaming.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. mind control...?

I like to think that most of us out here can still think for ourselves..............

[Nuclear Unicorn]

12. But if the government WAS using mind control

How would you know the difference?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. oh please....go sell your conspiracy theory somewhere else

I am not buying today. Thanks for playing.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

18. Actually I'm not selling anything

Loughner was convinced the government was using grammar to control people's minds. He confronted Rep Giffords over the issue in the past.

Many claims have been made about why he went on his rampage.

So why not talk about those "reasons"?

[BadgerKid]

11. Really, *any* group can use language (framing, metaphors, euphanisms,...)

that has an interest in creating a certain perception.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

16. What about using grammar to suppress "conscience dreaming"?

Sounds pretty serious if you ask me but I don't think it's anything to shoot up a political rally over.

[BadgerKid]

17. Never heard of "conscience" dreaming, but I have of "conscious"/lucid dreaming.

[obxhead]

14. Time to stop the overuse of the word terrorism.

I'm tired of it being attached to everything from a snowball fight to war.