What war America is fighting right now has yet to be adequately defined. There are people who identify as conservative claiming “the left” assassinated Charlie Kirk, but even the suspect who has been identified or blamed does not fit whatever loose description that holds. Thinking about things in terms of left/right in America has absolutely no value. It never did. The terms come from the French Revolution and had to do with the physical seating arrangements in parliament. I’ve written about this at length in the past, and people still fall into the trap because it is rhetorically lazy.
To my historical knowledge, the “left” in the French revolution wanted an end to the monarchy, and to have a secular democratic society. The “right” opposed this, wanting to keep in place the current situation. In that instance, the left also believed this would be a way for them to assume power, whether that was their primary objective or not.
Thus people have for centuries equated “revolution” with the “left,” and secular society also with that “side” of the aisle.
However, this definition and more importantly, meaning came from a context where it was parliament contesting whether to follow the will of the people revolting, or to clamp down on it violently from the position of existing authority.
When the Tea Party movement happened, that fits the description of leftism to some extent, attempting to oust the existing orthodoxy.
But conflating leftism with antifascist is also wrong.
Forget Your Framework For A Second, and Take a Look at Mine
Back in 2021 after the events of January 6th, I published what became one of my most feared pieces of content, which we removed from the website it was hosted on for many years before republishing it. It was called The Cold Revolutionary Civil War. Almost immediately after posting this, I was treated by many in my personal life, as if I had somehow declared war on the country. Ironically, by calling out what was already going on, in a way nobody else had, I demonstrated that things are not what they seem. You think it’s Democrat vs. Republican. It’s not.
The war America is fighting right now is complex, and the cold civil revolutionary war has not gotten any better.
When I was first writing this, though America had adversaries, the tensions were in fewer open kinetic conflicts.
These days, things are becoming more violent, with less outlet for progress.
“Progressives” are not progressing. “Conservatives” are aggressively pushing in new yet negative territory, that also has disparate remnants of eras long gone, that everybody portends to be an expert in.
Yet, debates about guns, abortion, or voting, have not changed in decades.
The “sides” are so entrenched, it looks like leadership to you when people find new ways to say the same old thing.
I am not apathetic, or passive, either. Voting, is not the only choice or option you have to impact society. By individually composing novel ideas, solutions, and challenges, distributing them creatively, and with some technological knowhow, I am revolutionizing how civic action looks and what it is capable of. You don’t know that yet, because it frightens you. Yet we need in society, to have what I do frighten you less than the alternative, which we are now seeing on display.
What Etymology Has To Teach You, Different From History & Science
Etymology is often thought of as the history of a word, and how its definition can change over time. That is actually a shallow understanding of a much more powerful concept. The real, true meaning of the word etymology, is, the real/true meaning of a word. Meaning, not definition. The difference is, that meaning is not subjective, or open to your own personal interpretation the same way a definition is. Meaning of words are fixed in their root. Definition can be manipulated, and perhaps some small alterations or connotations can be installed over time. However, if the definition and modern comprehension of a word strays too far from its real/true meaning, it does not actually change the meaning of the word.
Words are symbolic of real things, which means that changing the definition is meant to help people obtain the meaning of the word through other understandings. That does not mean you can change meaning by altering definitions. That is, consequently, the main trick of what a cult does.
History Changes Some Things, But Not Everything
Knowing the historical change or context of words, including those which become seen as obscene or meant to be erased from society or restricted from certain people, means that you understand cultural acceptance of reality, or delusions.
Language did not evolve asynchronously from our understanding of the world.
That means, it functions more like software code than you think it does.
In other words, they function, with meaning, not just your understanding of the definition. You cannot change what words mean simply by redefining them. That is the work of cults, in order to transform ontology, belief, and actions in people, while speaking what would otherwise sound like regular language.
Etymology of the Word “War” Is Confusing
Though you have to look back far in history, to proto-Germanic language, but the word “war” as we know it, came from the word “wers,” which meant “to confuse,” or “mix up.” So when somebody challenges another person to a fight claiming to “mix it up,” in a way, that is one of the truest meanings of the word. How the concept of confusion and mixing things up came to mean physical, kinetic, or now media/psychological fighting between nations or gangs, I do not know. But we know that it happened.
This is important, because it can ground you in understanding when you are being attacked through the media. If you find a story confusing, it could be due to your ignorance on the subject, or what’s happening around it. Yet, if you try to figure out what’s happening, or study a news event, and can’t figure it out quickly, that may be due to intentional confusion: information warfare. Often accompanying real violence.
You Hold Delusional Beliefs About American Society, Our World, and War
MAGA does not exist, outside of the corporation. I have people professing to be liberals online most often attack this point of view. They say they know somebody in MAGA. They call self-avowed MAGA Congressmen MAGA. Meanwhile, the power of this concept only exists rhetorically. If you simply stopped using it, in this case, it would disappear. That’s different than Republican or Democrat, which people register to vote as. They donate to the DNC, the RNC, and individual candidates who openly perform those roles. That’s the difference between a political party (which can be cult-like) and MAGA which doesn’t exist.
Similarly to “antifa” as a singular group, which does not actually exist.
Mostly because Americans don’t even know what fascism is.
You do not actually know what happened on January 6th.
You do not even know what COVID-19 is.
Your beliefs about the 2020 election are wrong, and incomplete.
That is because there has been a war on your mind from the inside, and from the outside. For the last (5) years particularly, things you recognize as dishonesty from politicians, media outlets, and the medical establishment for example, have made you mistrustful. As right it should have. But you never resolved who or what to trust, which is why people still trot around their years-old rationalizations these days on podcasts and news conferences and things. It’s like people cannot believe they too were swindled. But you were. Because if you did what I did, you wouldn’t have survived.
Etymology of Fascism: Mussolini’s Philosophy, and Misinterpretations
I detailed this to some extent in Have You Even Read Mussolini, Bro? where I advise readers to read the actual words of Mussolini and his doctrine of fascism. He invented the word. Though war existed before, of course, and though some refuted Kant’s notion of perpetual peace, Mussolini codified this belief in a very poorly written philosophical treatise. It can be simplified to be something like “war always, and nothing but the state.” Democrats and Republicans behave this way, especially in the federal government. We are not “becoming” a fascist country.
We became one some time ago.
FDR was a fascist. Just because he and Hitler pursued different models, does not make them different in terms of underlying philosophy. Not only did FDR also break our constitution to remain in power for 2x longer than constitutionally was supposed to be allowable, but he interned Japanese, Italian, and German citizens under suspicion of being invaders, he signed more executive orders than any other President in history (including Trump), waged World War II from the American side, socialized the labor market to a large extent,
There Is A War Against America, So America Is At War
Donald Trump and his administration have done great damage to the perception and comprehension of the meaning of words compared to their newfangled or cult-like re-definitions of them. In court, judges have said as much. But they have declared national emergencies which have documented our nation on course to claim that there is an invasion of sorts. That is the rhetoric, that is the reaction, and the net effect is a nation at war.
We are entering or have arrived at a phase of American history, outside of the veil of propaganda so thick you can’t see through it anymore. People are waking up to the ills on their own supposed side, as well. In-fighting is happening on both major parties’ sides. The fake opposition is breaking down.
Something is happening, that has been happening, for a while.
Deprogramming Is Hard Work
COVID was a brainwashing program more than it was a biological virus.
“It” so much as you could think of it as something distinct, was manufactured in words – not a science lab – to convince you that you do not know what is really real.
A word with no etymology whatsoever, is a disease to the mind.
What that means is, if you can invent a word that has no attachment to reality, it can create a fantasy, which people can make more real than it really is, by definition alone. That’s brainwashing.
I have deprogrammed myself, from multiple cults, after being born into them and infiltrating them.
It is not easy. You can not do it yourself, just because I did.
Perpetual Peace Is A Part of the Solution
Fascists reject perpetual peace.
Wanting war or not, their disposition creates it by leaving no room for an alternative. If you’re trained to hear these slights of hand in rhetoric, or intentionally confusing linguistic programs, like I am, they are easy to detect and stop. But you are not trained like I am, nor experience to do that. That is why you are prey for these predators who are at war with your mind. Some use these methods of confusion to sell you jeans. Others do it to get you to donate to their political party.
Perhaps some manipulate others for some thrill of power, but that’s fewer and further between. Even those people often have to finance their operations to get away with it so there is usually a trail of transaction.
But your repetitive recycled and trite platform of thinking has to come to an end.
You must retool. Rework. Reimagine. Not from scratch, necessarily.
But enough of what you think you know about the world, how you prioritize it, is not working. It’s confusing. Causing confusion. And that is war.
Etymology is an art, but more of a science.
If a single character in software code being out of place can crash the whole system (it can) that means word choice, language, and delivery of word(s) is equally fragile, and potentially robust. It’s not even a matter of watching what you say. It’s a matter of recognizing when you’ve lost all sense of meaning, in the things you say or hear.
Clarity, is required.
If you don’t have it, I do. But you have to respond to this, instead of ignoring me.
