Normally a pacifist culture shouldn’t have too many words for war, since the concept shouldn’t be massaged or thought about by the populace too much to need that many distinctions and common usages. But in English, there should be concepts derived from hierarchy and social tradition, but they no longer exist to such a degree that people can no longer describe the problem the Left is causing in marriage or social harmony. They can describe the problem’s consequences, but they cannot describe the actual poison or function used to destroy.

The Left’s true power isn’t politics or the law, but mind control. And they have done an amazing job with certain Western civilizations.

But what replaced it was the kind of pseudo intellectualism found amongst the Brights, Born to Rule DC pols, and the Ruling Class. It’s a language designed specifically to support religious thoughts dogmatic to the Leftist cult.

Translating various thoughts from English to Japanese and vice a versa, it is quite obvious English has been crippled, even though the specificity and vocabulary are far stronger than the Japanese art of words.

I have two observations to contribute to the discussion.

First, the most intelligent persons who are the best writers can write plainly and simply so just about anybody can understand them.

Second, writing plainly and simply is awfully hard to do.

Whether these observations are really pertinent or significant… I don’t know.

This year, forewarned as I was before embarking on “Middlemarch”, I was still awestruck by the immense subtlety and intelligence contained in Eliot’s prose. I — we? — are probably more stupid than the Victorians, certainly more superficial.

FDR was talking to free citizens. Not merely slaves and wards of the state, as it now exists.

To convince free citizens that they need to rely on the gov in a war or that the gov should even be in a war, takes a different caliber of persuasion than the denizens of DC now a days.

It’s only 15 minutes long, and it’s worth watching the whole thing. This speech is best known for his warning about the influence of the military-industrial complex, but of equal or greater importance is the passage immediately following, about the danger of government control of funding for scientific research. (Global warming, anyone?)

But beyond that, I was struck by how he spoke to the audience as mature, intelligent adults. He talked about challenges facing the nation and our governing traditions, without resorting to cheap sound bites. He clearly had respect for the American people, and didn’t talk down to them. I can’t imagine a modern politician of either party giving a speech like this today.

And, no, they don’t diagram sentences in English class any more. They stopped that decades ago.

This was not an accident, but a deliberate plan, carried out under the guise of “progress” and supposedly with the best of intentions, with its goal to create a citizenry that–progressively deprived of the knowledge, thought processes, standards, behaviors, and the analytical tools that past generations were routinely taught–would be much more pliable, more easily duped, and led.

English became my second language, this was a problem early on, but on the other subjects I soon found out that I was well ahead of the other students.

As I became more and more proficient in the language, I was shock as how infantile was the language the teacher used in her lessons. The use of slang and general colloquialisms was a changed from the academic language that I was used to in my simple rural school in Puerto Rico.

It appeared to me that the words I was learning using my 1905 World Encyclopedia that my aunt had purchased to assist me in my learning were now obsolete. Things have gotten progressively worse in time.