Playing With Words is Serious Business By George de Poor Handlery |
"The emasculation of the meaning of concepts is thriving in democracies as well as in dictatorships, and fact-denying and reality-obscuring tags can do more than to hide snake medicine in opaque bottles.
One of my better lectures used to “explain” Hitler’s success by putting the name of his party as a programmatic slogan under the microscope. Being young, I regarded the label as genial. However, due to the crash in total defeat, the trick appeared to be a spent PR stunt. Innocently, I also thought that getting away with the miracle cure was an indicator of German naiveté. It could only work in a crisis following upon a stable authoritarian system that got subjected to pastel-toned partial recall. The craving for security and for protection by a leader assuming “responsibility” preconditioned contemporaries to lick up the concoction spilled into their trough as though it was spilled milk and they were cats. Before we get to the present, you want to know about the ingredients of the potion that sold like bananas in a chimp-cage. "
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