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Saturday, August 06, 2022

What We Can Know and What We Can't Not Know

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Enough about the pathologies of language. What about its virtues? What is it -- and by extension, this blog -- good for?  Well, for starters...

What We Can Know and What We Can't Not Know

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Enough about the pathologies of language. What about its virtues? What is it -- and by extension, this blog -- good for?  Well, for starters...
3 comments:
Friday, August 05, 2022

Just Say NO to Verbal Drugs

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As we've no doubt said before, progressivism is the opiate of the tenured, but in order to achieve its psychoactive effect, it requires ...

Just Say NO to Verbal Drugs

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As we've no doubt said before, progressivism is the opiate of the tenured, but in order to achieve its psychoactive effect, it requires ...
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Thursday, August 04, 2022

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Logopathology

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Let's continue our foray into the logopathologies to which man is heir.  Perhaps we should put them on a scale, as we do with other crim...

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Logopathology

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Let's continue our foray into the logopathologies to which man is heir.  Perhaps we should put them on a scale, as we do with other crim...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Lying Ghouls, Credulous Fools, and Power Tools

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Although  The Rape of the Mind  was published in 1956, its description of how to commit textual assault is timeless: "facts are replace...

Lying Ghouls, Credulous Fools, and Power Tools

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Although  The Rape of the Mind  was published in 1956, its description of how to commit textual assault is timeless: "facts are replace...
21 comments:
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Missing Links, Lying Finks, and the Endless Insurrection

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We left off yesterday with the key point that "Speech which emancipates itself from the norm of (real) things, at the same time necessa...

Missing Links, Lying Finks, and the Endless Insurrection

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We left off yesterday with the key point that "Speech which emancipates itself from the norm of (real) things, at the same time necessa...
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Monday, August 01, 2022

Inexact Sciences and Sciences of the Inexact

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We left off yesterday with the metalinguistic principle that words have a dual function: they are about reality and for communication; or ...

Inexact Sciences and Sciences of the Inexact

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We left off yesterday with the metalinguistic principle that words have a dual function: they are about reality and for communication; or ...
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Sunday, July 31, 2022

The Corruption of Language and the Abuse of Man

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"The basic problems for the man tamer are rather simple," writes Meerloo. "Can a man resist a government bent on conditioning...

The Corruption of Language and the Abuse of Man

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"The basic problems for the man tamer are rather simple," writes Meerloo. "Can a man resist a government bent on conditioning...
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Saturday, July 30, 2022

Leftist Mindrape Culture

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A while back I read a book called The Rape of the Mind , by a Dutch psychiatrist named Joost Merloo. It was published back in 1956. It's...