Mouood Mouood English Edition
American history is made by words. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, George Washington’s Farewell Address, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream speech, and John F. Kennedy’s speeches before the American Newspaper Publishers Association and American University are landmarks speeches in American history. From them we get the following historical lines and ideas:
– “All men are created equal”
– “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world”
– “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”
– “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”
– “Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive”
– “Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave”
Words can literally shape a people’s memory, and make them believe a certain way. Words can be utilized to invade the mind and put down rebellious thoughts like armies that invade cities and set ablaze its citizens for acts of revolt. Words can serve as an agent of enslavement or as a tool for liberation and transformation. False words separate and confine men whereas true words heal and emancipate. Words from the pens of Jefferson and Madison founded America; words from the mouths of Bush and Obama have destroyed it.
IV. The Double Power of Words and Myth
Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye said that words convey cultural and societal myths and make particular ideological beliefs hold sway over people’s minds. In his book “Words with Power” Frye noted the power of language to establish certain myths in a society and enable those myths to be passed on to future generations, writing:
Myth loses its ideological function except for what is taken over and adapted by logos. Myths that are no longer believed, no longer connected with cult or ritual, become purely literary; myths that retain a special status in society are translated into logos language, and are taught and learned in that form. (2).
The neoconservatives and other cliques who work for Washington’s hidden establishment have exploited the power of myth and the dark power of words to pursue criminal goals both inside America and in the Middle East. But all this is well known by political spin doctors and directors of political campaigns. Barack Obama would never have been elected President if he did not cunningly exploit the power of rhetoric and repeat universal words like “hope” and “change” to hypnotize voters and get them to think positively about him. He is slick, but not wise. A wise man would never have chosen to be the spokesperson for America’s plutocratic elite and carry out their criminal agenda.
Frye wrote about the politician’s misuse of rhetoric to captivate the crowd and put it in a state of submissiveness. He said:
When the rhetorical occasion narrows down from the historical to the immediate, as at rallies and pep talks, we begin to see features in rhetoric that account for the suspicion, even contempt, with which it was regarded so often by Plato and Aristotle. Let us take a rhetorical situation at its worst. In intensive rhetoric with a short-term aim, there is a deliberate attempt to put the watchdog of consciousness to sleep, and the steady battering of consciousness becomes hypnotic, as the metaphor of “swaying” an audience suggests. A repetition of cliché phrases is designed to bring about a form of dissociation. The dead end of all this is the semi-autonomous monster called
the mob, of which the speaker is now the shrieking head. For a mob the kind of independent judgement appealed by dialectic is an act of open defiance, and is normally treated as such. (3).
Obama’s mob, like Bush’s mob, and Palin-McCain’s mob, have no idea who or what they are supporting because they want to cheer on their leaders instead of ask serious questions about their background, philosophy, and political programs. They are totally identified with them. When someone points out to them that they have been betrayed by the entire political establishment, republican and democrat alike, they half-agree, calling the other side evil, and continue to worship their chosen leader. They view anybody who questions the word or morality of their leader as a threat to their existence. Rather than engage in a debate with people who have a different opinion they resort to all sorts of childish tactics like calling them a “conspiracy theorist,” an “extremist,” and even a “traitor” without any evidence to support their statements. They don’t have any idea what these words were designed for but they repeat them anyway to silence critics and shut down debate.
The strangest thing to happen to you is to present clear evidence to people proving 9/11 was an inside job and be denounced as a crazy person. It is like speaking to a machine. But it is not their fault. I sometimes use the word sheeple to describe deniers of 9/11 truth but I will stop using it in my articles because people are victims of government terrorism and government lying. I put the blame at the feet of the betrayers and traitors at the top who have outlawed debate and persecuted people who are simply asking questions.
It wasn’t always like this. There was a time in America and the West when public debates mattered because there were better men around running for public office who wanted to discuss real issues. I’ve read the Lincoln-Douglas debates and I can’t believe that politicians were expressive and profound once. Even the Nixon and Kennedy debates are worth studying. Obama and Bush are children compared to those men. Who will study Obama’s speeches a hundred years from now? Nobody, because his speeches are written for immediate public consumption, not to raise the public spirit and provide posterity with words of what men believed and felt deep in their hearts in the beginning of the 21st century. Can anybody truly say that Obama speaks for this age? He can’t even speak for himself. The same trend is noticeable across the West. In Canada the line from Wilfrid Laurier to Stephen Harper is a steady and steep decline. Each generation of politicians have become more corrupt, dumb, selfish, and deceitful. Is this a reflection on the people or the corrupt and self-serving modern political system and mass media culture which are interlinked? The evidence points towards the latter.
Look at what the people are up against. Since 9/11 a totalitarian war of disinformation, propaganda, and mass brainwashing has been waged against the American people and the people of the world. As a result, people are finding it hard to make up their minds about what is true and what is false when it comes to 9/11, the war on terror, and the general direction that the world is moving in.
The mythic force of ideology is a big reason why people believe the official 9/11 story is the truth of history. The basic definition of ideology is “a set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.” The U.S. government’s ideology about terrorism and 9/11 revolves around Islamic terrorism, which ties in pretty well with the blowback narrative that has been uncritically accepted by the left and libertarian press. This narrative works well because it is highly believable. There are many Muslims around the world who shout “Death to America,” so it is easy in the popular mind to connect a group’s will to an atrocious act like hijacking airliners and flying them into the modern-day pyramids of New York City.
