Interesting comment regarding language, Mark. For me, studying the origins of language, Latin in particular, was an indispensable shovel that helped me dig my way out of this mind-mess we call modern consensus thought.
Control language and you control how people think. Redefine words to suit your agenda and you create a cult.
Interesting comment regarding language, Mark. For me, studying the origins of language, Latin in particular, was an indispensable shovel that helped me dig my way out of this mind-mess we call modern consensus thought.
Control language and you control how people think. Redefine words to suit your agenda and you create a cult.
Here is a breakdown of the Latin root "dignitas" (in order of original intended meaning)
1 worth, excellence
2 (for task) fitness, suitability,
3 honour, esteem, standing
4 rank or status
5 merit
6 dignity
7 position, authority or office
8 dignitaries
Early definitions are simple-- "worth", "excellence", "suitable". These indicate no implicit connection to any human hierarchical authoritarian paradigm. A hammer has dignitas if you are trying to chisel stone. A stone carver has dignitas if he is skilled enough to get paid to chisel stone.
The word "dignity" then was later redefined so that a word that originally meant "worth", "suitability" and "excellence" was now assigned to human holders of "office", "position" or "authority".
This redefinition meant that its' correlative human counterparts, those of us without "position", "office" or "authority" are held in the mind as "humans without worth", "humans without excellence", "humans without suitability".
Accepting this redefinition means you are now mind-controlled within a closed system of rule. You willingly vote, pay taxes, purchase healthcare insurance, protest abuses of power, etc. accepting all of this quite unawares, seeing yourself as a human being without worth. You are a cult member.
Interesting comment regarding language, Mark. For me, studying the origins of language, Latin in particular, was an indispensable shovel that helped me dig my way out of this mind-mess we call modern consensus thought.
Control language and you control how people think. Redefine words to suit your agenda and you create a cult.
Here is a breakdown of the Latin root "dignitas" (in order of original intended meaning)
1 worth, excellence
2 (for task) fitness, suitability,
3 honour, esteem, standing
4 rank or status
5 merit
6 dignity
7 position, authority or office
8 dignitaries
Early definitions are simple-- "worth", "excellence", "suitable". These indicate no implicit connection to any human hierarchical authoritarian paradigm. A hammer has dignitas if you are trying to chisel stone. A stone carver has dignitas if he is skilled enough to get paid to chisel stone.
The word "dignity" then was later redefined so that a word that originally meant "worth", "suitability" and "excellence" was now assigned to human holders of "office", "position" or "authority".
This redefinition meant that its' correlative human counterparts, those of us without "position", "office" or "authority" are held in the mind as "humans without worth", "humans without excellence", "humans without suitability".
Accepting this redefinition means you are now mind-controlled within a closed system of rule. You willingly vote, pay taxes, purchase healthcare insurance, protest abuses of power, etc. accepting all of this quite unawares, seeing yourself as a human being without worth. You are a cult member.
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