Romance of words and its manipulators and media.
1] As a polyglot I
witness with glee the grand strides a word takes, because of the suppleness and
substantial survival value, in the course of its evolution acquiring a carapace
of connotations.
2] This makes sincere
preachers, philosophers and scientist to spend reams and reams of paper or lot
of time in first ‘defining’ the meaning of the word through which what they are
trying to say or want to say or communicate.
3] Very often these
connotations also feed a profession called legal profession which thrives on
camouflaging and cleverly interpreting or manipulating cases through verbal
diarrhea?
4] Word sometimes
carry within it some affinity to its etymological root; sometimes it gets
exalted due to the deft handling of it by great writers, philosophers ,
linguists etc; sometimes it gets struck up in some vital context; sometimes it
also act as the very fulcrum of certain contexts; sometimes it unfolds hitherto
unraveled different dimensions of its original meaning; sometimes it
exquisitely spreads its wings to fly and catch the subtle nuances which bring
out the various facets of its overall splendor ; sometimes it embellishes and
establishes through experiences or thoughts newer meanings; sometimes a newer
connotation gets added to the word in its journey through how it is perceived
by socio- cultural acceptance and assimilation; sometimes it establishes its
life because of its relationship to some other words or as a part of a popular
idiom or phrase; sometimes it keeps modifying itself aesthetically to survive
or supplement some specific situation; sometimes it unshackles its fetters and
acquires several new meanings totally disconnected from its original DNA to
sustain the life of something else whose survival/life it is supposed to
enhance and expand beyond recognition of both its own original identity and
that of what it refers to and in the process getting totally delinked from its
very root [ as in the case of the word ‘religion’]; sometimes its plasticity is
optimally used to refer to a multitude of emotions, feelings, situations etc
some of which could be even totally contradictory; sometimes its elastically
expands to give space in its womb to give birth to a new jargon or a new
idiom or a new phrase; sometimes it gets married to some other word/s and in
its proliferation of love lives to copulate and cohabit with a stranger quiet
oblivious of its own identity in that romantic movement.
5] But sometimes
because of her innocent, pleasant and hospitable nature she is abused and raped
by sloganeering ideologists [who seek to establish some ‘ism’ misusing her],
publicity peddlers, propaganda pushers, religious zealots, mass opinion
molders, brainwashing brigands, scandal mongering media mafia, political
manipulators etc.
6] Through parochial, prejudiced and puerile
definitions they are used to putrefy the cultural fabric of the society to destroy
national unity by creating divisions among people and society which has been
holding people together as very humane social beings living in harmony with
nature even without institutional control.
7] Master manipulators
resort to constant propaganda by abusing and misusing words through sloganeering
and blind labeling to petrify human thinking and thereby suppress humanity’s mental
development.
8] All of these are
done to ensure people are kept constantly busy struggling for their survival
materially and striving for a social unity and they are castrated of their
independent thinking through manipulating vocabulary which is purposefully
mutilated beyond recognition and thus majority are prevented from even thinking
otherwise and the whole media is a big culprit in this strategy of frenzied
sabotage involving a treble murder of material, social and psychological
growth.
9] All perpetrators and promoters of homogenization and mass mania promoters, authoritarian control freaks have used very effectively these ploys of words to
mesmerize and manipulate to institutionalize and promote most religious
belief systems, divisive political ‘ isms’, propagate certain economic systems, perpetuate
certain traditions etc.
10] That way we human
beings have been heartless to many words .
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