Words To Confuse By

I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that we seem to be living in a bizarro world where everything is actually the opposite of what we thought it was. The movies are real…the news is fake. The government’s food pyramid perhaps should be followed…if it were upside down. Anything out of a politician’s mouth might ring as true…if you were to consider the opposite of what they were actually saying.

Q encouraged us to “think mirror.”

Have you noticed that words themselves often mean the opposite of their intended definitions? Have you ever used the word “sick” or “badass” to describe something great or wonderful? You hear those two a lot by kids and “cool” people.

Or how about the word “cool” itself, to describe a nice or benevolent person? Cool means cold, unfriendly. Do you prefer a person who is warm and friendly, or cold? Fonzie was the definition of cool – he definitely wasn’t warm or friendly, or the kind of guy people would even like on first meeting. We now use the term cool to mean anything or anyone that we like.

Motherfu!&er originally was a term used in the inner city to describe the WORST sort of person – the nastiest thing you could call someone. Now, it’s thrown around like it’s nothing, and you can even hear it used in a “good” way: he’s a “cool motherfu!&er”.

Tradesmen in the northeast love to use the word “crushed” to refer to skillfully completing a job. “How did you do on that bathroom remodel?” “I crushed it!” Destruction is actually the opposite of creation, as if that isn’t obvious. But it’s not obvious to most people that we’re using words that mean the opposite of their intended meanings.

The cabal and deep state have used the language to enslave us in many ways. The world is waking up to how the Vatican, the City of London, freemasons, et al, used legalese to turn our Constitution and our country (and all of us as individuals) into corporation(s). Check this out:

We all have seen over the last dozen years how the news and educational institutions, and their minions, have used words like “racist”, “sexist”, “homophobe”, etc to attack their enemies in an act of psychological projection warfare: name your enemy by those words that can be used to describe YOU. Another case of opposites.

But there are also more subtle tactics that have been deployed for a long time…like the use of something Ayn Rand called: anti-concepts. Ayn Rand had a LOT to say about the use of words and concept formation. That’s a rabbit hole worthy of your time, if you’re an autist for that type of nerdery. Her definition:

“An anti-concept is an unnecessary and rationally unusable term designed to replace and obliterate some legitimate concept. The use of anti-concepts gives the listeners a sense of approximate understanding. But in the realm of cognition, nothing is as bad as the approximate. . . .

“One of today’s fashionable anti-concepts is “polarization.” Its meaning is not very clear, except that it is something bad—undesirable, socially destructive, evil—something that would split the country into irreconcilable camps and conflicts. It is used mainly in political issues and serves as a kind of “argument from intimidation”: it replaces a discussion of the merits (the truth or falsehood) of a given idea by the menacing accusation that such an idea would “polarize” the country—which is supposed to make one’s opponents retreat, protesting that they didn’t mean it. Mean—what? . . .

“Observe the technique involved . . . .It consists of creating an artificial, unnecessary, and (rationally) unusable term, designed to replace and obliterate some legitimate concepts—a term which sounds like a concept, but stands for a ‘package-deal’ of disparate, incongruous, contradictory elements taken out of any logical conceptual order or context, a ‘package-deal’ whose (approximately) defining characteristic is always a non-essential. This last is the essence of the trick.

“Let me remind you that the purpose of a definition is to distinguish the things subsumed under a single concept from all other things in existence; and, therefore, their defining characteristic must always be that essential characteristic which distinguishes them from everything else.

“So long as men use language, that is the way they will use it. There is no other way to communicate. And if a man accepts a term with a definition by non-essentials, his mind will substitute for it the essential characteristic of the objects he is trying to designate . . . . Thus the real meaning of the term will automatically replace the alleged meaning…

“The truth or falsehood of all of man’s conclusions, inferences, thought and knowledge rests on the truth or falsehood of his definitions… Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration." –Ayn Rand

Some examples of anti-concepts: “extremism”, “isolationism”, “simplistic”, “stakeholder”, “duty”, “consumerism”, “McCarthyism”

If you listen and watch words closely you’ll see that their meanings don’t often match up with the intent of the user. And, in some cases, words and the world will make a lot more sense if we simply…

THINK MIRROR.