tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post113389577655363282..comments2024-03-28T14:32:19.334+00:00Comments on Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: Holy Dhimmitude!Pastoriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1133905448746393752005-12-06T21:44:00.000+00:002005-12-06T21:44:00.000+00:00Perhaps the Westeern media still refer to Karballa...Perhaps the Westeern media still refer to Karballah and Najaf as "holy cities." I was sickened daily to encounter that in the media shortly after Western forces entered the above cities. It's group-think and cliche mongering among semi-educated hacks. The world at large is not only dunned by this crap, they come to expect it as right.<BR/><BR/>If one were to refer to Najaf as a city in Iraq, the public generally now would automatically think "holycityofnajaf."<BR/><BR/>Words lose meaning when people misuse them to the point they cannot mean anything. Then, all we have left is noise and wind. Say what you like, and free speech for all: no one can understand it if it's been reduced to pablum by others for so long and strenuously that even sense is reduced from the start to automatic reinterpretation, missing words included: "Najaf" is automatically heard as "holycityofnajaf," as if the speaker were using verbal shorthand. If this catches on in the media, then Mecca will come to be, in the public mind "holycityofmecca." And good luck changing the mind of the average listener. He'll hear the soundless cliche in his own mind, and the speaker won't know till it's too late.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.com