How Has Language Been Weaponized?
Channel: Rev Jonathan Barlow Gee
Date: 05/07/2023

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7 How is language been weaponised? & has it always been this way.

Language - verbal and written communication - is a tool, and like all other tools, will eventually be weaponized by human beings, because human beings are innately “evil.” Let me explain that this way: everyone is “evil” to some extent, and some people are more “evil” than “good;” likewise, of the entire population of people alive today, a small but definite percentage of us are totally “evil.” This is essentially the same as with the so-called “neanderthal genome” - all people have about 2% DNA from Neanderthals, but about 2% of all people have a higher ratio of genetics in common with, now otherwise extinct, Neanderthals. So what is “evil”? If language is a tool and can be used for “good” how can its becoming “weaponized” for “evil” ends be avoided? Brian Gyson and William Burroughs first called “language” a “virus” and it is true “mimetic” propagation spreads alike a psychic contagion, passed along from one person to another until everyone is infected by whatever the information is - this, in fact, is the explanation for the popularity of the false idea called “god.” However, communication is a far more effective tool for distributing intelligence than even an epidemic disease is at its similar task, distributing a biological plague. If depopulation by dispersion of disease were anymore effective than “word of mouth” is at dispensing a remedy, there’d be none of us here.