But in a corporatist society there is no serious need for traditional censorship or burning, although there are regular cases. It is as if our language itself is responsible for our inability to identify and act upon reality. I would put it this way. Our language has been separated into two parts. There is public language - enormous, rich, varied and more or less powerless. Then there is corporatist language, attached to power and action. Corporatist language breaks down into three types. Rhetoric, propaganda and dialect. For the moment lets concentrate on dialects. Not the old fashioned regional dialects, but the specialized, inward looking verbal mechanisms (Im avoiding the word language because they are not a language; they do not communicate) of the tens of thousands of monopolies of fractured knowledge. These are what I would call the dialects of the individual corporations. The social dialects, the medical dialects, the science dialects, the linguist dialects, the artist dialects. Thousands and thousands of them, purposely impenetrable to the non-expert, with thick defensive walls that protect each corporations sense of importance. This splitting of language into a public domain and a corporatist domain makes it very difficult for anyone - outsider or insider - to grasp reality. Without a language that functions as a general means of useful communication, civilization slip off into self-delusion and romanticism, both of which are aspects of ideology, both aspects of unconsciousness.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:43:19 +0000