Doublespeak Definitions: Speaking Truth To Power
Doublespeak Definitions:
Speaking Truth To Power: This is a catch-phrase invented and used by those who do not understand the English language or the essence of thought or logic.
Like the Emperor’s Magnificent Suit of Invisible Clothes, those who hear the phrase are supposed to pretend that it is rational, valid, and significant.
Charlatans and intellectually challenged individuals use this emotionally charged black magic incantation to rally other equally mindless individuals to their personal crusade against whatever they (in their self-appointed authoritarianism) decree to be “social injustice”, and the use of the emotionally charged phrase is intended to intimidate all who do not agree with them, and distract them with emotional frenzy from the awareness of the reality that the truth is not on the side of those who use the phrase and that they do not have the intellectual acuity to argue facts, and thus, resort to emotional blackmail, character assassination / argumentum ad hominem, shouting, hateful facial expressions, intimidation, spurious demonization of their detractors, and even violence.
The use of the phrase inaugurates the one that uses it into the politically correct counter-culture club that seeks to destroy Christendom. Those who use the phrase think themselves ever so clever simply for using it (like numerous chimpanzees proudly wearing a flower pot on their heads, simply because they saw another chimpanzee do it* — it becomes a mindless fad, though one that rots the foundation of civilization); however, those not affected by the voodoo superstition, when they hear the phrase used by someone, silently realizes, “Ah, another utter moron ‘outs’ himself, just in case anyone was not completely convinced simply by looking at him”.
The phrase quickly generalizes to all genres, spreading like wildfire, as sycophants fall over one another in their frenzied eagerness and zeal to use the anti-intellectual phrase (that had never before existed in any land or era of intelligence) as if it were the greatest concentrated distillation of eternal truth. In so chiming in, evanescent bubbles effervesce, expending the totality of their mental ability, then pop into nothingness, as a myriad of apish drones confess, “I too am a moron!”
[* The image of an older commercial for some cell phone service, whose motto was “Can you hear me now?”, of a chimpanzee holding a banana to his ear and mouth as if it was a phone, baring his teeth in a smile accompanied by head shaking and raucous monkey chatter also comes to mind.]
The same effect is witnessed in the alleged “poetry” of the same crowd... who CONFUSE emotional melodramatic reading with actual literature and poetry. The phone book can be “read dramatically”, out loud, by an actor, as if there is deep significance and meaning to it; but that does not give it meaning or make it literature or poetry.