Inhuman Humor,

 

There was never such a thing, as humor as a coping mechanism. It always was and it still is revengeful, to laugh about others. The only human humor is laughing about oneself. This has to be done alone, not in public. Laughing about oneself in public, may be considered as funny by others, but it is utterly self-defeating.

 

While it kept claiming, it helped to solve them, our inhuman humor has caused incalculable problems. The public display of laughter has never been seen for what it always was and still is: violence. The nasty reality of what is commonly accepted as humor, is that whenever we are laughing at others, someone is getting hurt. Although it may not seem very obvious, that doesn’t make it any less true. Conversely, only real laughter, about us, is harmless. The harmful laughter, we are used to, has never produced the change, forgiveness or understanding, we have always been told, that humor, supposedly, brings.  

 

Humor, in which we laugh about others, always meant one thing and one thing only: getting even with others. Presumably, and, justifyingly, they had it coming, because they had wronged us. What does the old saying, he or she had the last laugh, mean? It is ancient. It describes a situation in which someone, who initially was at a disadvantage and faced ridicule, ultimately emerged victorious. Even so-called harmless humor, isn’t so harmless after all, once we look into what is happening. Humor has always been used as a weapon to oppress, belittle, humiliate and deliberately hurt people and by turning the tables on their tormentors, victims, supposedly, became winners, as they had the last laugh…

 

Laughing at others always involves struggle, competition, envy and hatred. It is called the superiority theory of humor and goes back to the Greeks. Aristotle insisted, we laugh at the ugly and stupid to express the joy we feel, we are better than them and Socrates added, we  laugh at those who are delusional about their own abilities, because we flatter ourselves that we are more clear-sighted. Of course, laughing about others also signifies our unaddressed inability of laughing about ourselves.

 

While laughter about others continues to be promoted as a striking tool of resistance or as the ultimate strategy for playful protest, our common inability to laugh about ourselves demonstrates, that we are basically having no real self-awareness. Our fake-self-awareness is very uptight, because to be laughed at is our worst fear. Historically this was always framed as an issue of honor or respect and those who were being laughed at or dishonored, would often rather die, than experience public dismantling of their identity. There is a sure link between laughter, suicide or hara-kiri. It is an attempt to restore honor of themselves, as an individual. The famous French philosopher Albert Camus once said – apparently, kindly, to himself – should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

 

During our usual Disembodied Language (DL), we remain terribly worried, that others might laugh at our mistakes, as that would prove what fools we are. As long as we fear being laughed at, we are only superficially self-conscious and remain incapable of laughing about ourselves, since we don’t want to admit the stupid reality of all our repetitive problems. However, the essence of being able to laugh about ourselves, is to catch ourselves, in the habitual, automatic act of doing what we have always done and to be able to release ourselves from our imprisoning DL.

 

Surely, when we finally talk with ourselves and listen to ourselves and let ourselves know about what is going on, we can’t miss, the humoristic liberation, which occurs, due to a shift from our usual DL to Embodied Language (EL). Moreover, once we realize, that everyone with DL is faced with the same dilemma, we are freed from our own DL even quicker. Yes, we are all stuck with our language, that is why we can’t laugh about ourselves. In the same way, that our laughter is almost always about others, so too is our DL.

 

Only when we have ongoing EL is our language about ourselves and only then are we laughing about ourselves in a positive manner. In DL, we also laugh about ourselves, but it is always in a negative, unconscious manner. In DL, in which we don’t listen to ourselves while we speak, we can’t laugh about ourselves – even not while we are alone with ourselves – as that would mean, the end of our tragic, problematic habit. We have glorified our DL, in the same way, as we have sanctified the power, that can be achieved with it. Anyone with power, can seemingly get away with DL and can laugh in everyone’s face.

 

There is, of course, the real laughter of the free individual, who laughs about him or herself and about all the madness of this world, in which no one seems to be able anymore to laugh about themselves. Only the individual, who is able to laugh about him or herself, sets him or herself free from the straight jacket of DL, which is the language of our conditioning, that is, the language of the group and its insidious laughter about others.

 

My laughter of my EL is the laughter afforded to me, by my consciousness, because I listen to myself, while I speak. Moreover, my ongoing EL is my Language Enlightenment (LE). It has never been said, because it couldn’t before be said, but I say it today: the only real laughter, is, of course, the laughter from our LE. Such laughter emerges, as our EL allows us to complete the incomplete picture, we were used to with DL, because during EL, we say everything we can say and want to say. Only an individual – who doesn’t seek to achieve anything – can be him or herself and recognize the absurdity of everyone, who in DL, remains busy with others.

 

Laughter about ourselves, is a positive form of suicide. We seize to exist, as the identity, we have tried so fanatically, stressfully to protect, by not laughing about ourselves. Even if I still have some DL, sometimes, I never fail to laugh at myself. Actually, I have never enjoyed the inhuman humor of laughing about others, because I have secretively always liked my own laughter the best.                           

 Quality Laughter,

 

If you’re going to do it, you might as well do it right. Therefore, if you are going to laugh, you might as well laugh about yourself, because, let’s face it, your usual laughing about others is phony laughter. The problem is, you already laugh so very little, that you can’t stand any criticism of your miserly so-called laughter. Just the small quantity alone tells you, there is something wrong, qualitatively. In genuine or quality laughter – which, of course, is laughing about yourself – you would laugh much more than you currently do.    

 

Since you have settled for fake laughter, you get so little of it, that you never even get a chance, to understand, why you actually laugh so little? The reason is you don’t know how to have fun. Also, you don’t know how to relax, how to be at peace with yourself or how to live a meaningful life. That is why, besides comedians, you have all these other people – politicians, priests, gurus, psychologists, journalists, actors, writers – who, presumably, give you a tiny glimpse of what it might be like to have fun – or meaning, safety, hope, understanding, entertainment –  but, this is all the fun – acceptance, togetherness, insight or consciousness – that you’ll ever get. You have bought into an idea, a promise of good things that are going to happen, but that future never comes. You only receive miniscule teasers.  

 

When it comes to your own happiness, you are such a miser, such a minimalist. You do what it takes to survive, but for what? To experience endless misery and conflict, to feel only very rarely free and easy? Besides, your life is not what you say it is and you always pretend to be happy, while, in fact, you are not. And this is another aspect about your concept of laughter: your laughter about others is based on the false assumption, that, whenever everyone laughs, you’re having fun. This is such absolute nonsense.  

 

We may all, at times, be part of this or that kind of hype, but, one moment, we are, supposedly, having fun, but next, we are willing to march in a group of Nazi’s. Yes, laughing about others is inextricably connected to the group-behavior, which is antithetical to our individual freedom. Indeed, your usual way of laughing, is not only superficial, but you are crying yourself all the way to the bank, as you’re unfazed by the fact that you laugh at the expense of others. Yes, that’s exactly what you do. To put it bluntly, you are psychologically laughing yourself to death.    

 

Just as only a little bit of poison is needed to kill someone, only a little bit of so-called humor is sufficient to turn people into zombies.  You’re laughing because everyone else laughs and you don’t want to make it seem, as if you don’t have any sense of humor and refused to drink the cool aid. Laughter is a real clusterfuck, once you start to unpack it. You’ve got everything upside down, that is yet another reason why you laugh so very seldom or – not uncommon – not at all.

 

You can only laugh as long as you still have some sense or memory of what is normal, but when everything is fucked up and abnormal, there’s nothing to laugh about anymore. Since everything is completely out of whack these days, the only way to restore our ability to laugh, is to bring back a sense of regularity, order and normalcy. While everyone was having so much fun, while demonstratively laughing so hysterically about all the crazy stuff, that has been spouted by these outrageous stand-up comedians, we’ve totally lost track of reality.

 

With regard to humor, supposedly, we never can get weird, awkward, disgusting, twisted enough, but what happened is, we have started to laugh even less than any other people who have lived before. The good old times seem to have been gone for good and, apparently, all that is left, is to give in to the overwhelming  humor, in which any attempt at understanding is doomed. We’re gas-lighted into the belief, that the punch-line doesn’t matter anymore and, presumably, we should all be very happy that we are being told what we wanted to hear.

 

Only if we go back again, to laughing about ourselves, by owning up to our own failures, to our own stupidities, will we be able to laugh with others – instead of about them – who are just as foolish, stubborn, fallible and as easily confused or upset as we. Laughing together with others about ourselves makes us human but laughing about others – in spite of what was said to justify it – has made us inhuman, insensitive and psychologically dumb, numb, deaf and deranged.  

 The New Funny You,  

 

The bottom line about laughing about others, is that it sucks, because it has forever prevented you from being able to laugh about yourself, which, of course, is the real deal. This is why you are not getting any humor from me.

 

I have Embodied Language (EL) and my humor is a totally different matter than the so-called humor, you are used to, with your Disembodied Language (DL). There’s nothing for you to laugh about me, because with me, you go cold turkey.

 

With your negative DL, you keep wanting to laugh for the wrong reasons and I am not going to let that happen. If it was up to you, you would never hit rock bottom. You could call it strict humor, because you either are going to laugh about yourself or you don’t laugh at all.

 

Laughing about others is a thing of the past. It is what people used to do, when they didn’t know they could have fun – by engaging in EL – in which they would laugh about themselves all the time. This ignorance about laughing about ourselves, has been deliberately continued and exploited by all so-called comedians. If they had been honest with their audience, they would have admitted, their humor, was their coping mechanism, to deal with their dreadful lives.

 

Instead of making themselves laugh, comedians figured out, they could make others laugh and, so, they basically used their own trauma and tragedy, as a way to get attention from others.  This is what everybody does in DL – everyone demand the attention from others with their drama in DL – only comedians will do it, in such a way, that you can’t help but laugh, that you have to laugh.

 

No matter how successful funny people might have been in making others laugh, the laughter of others, never helped them, but made them feel even more depressed, disconnected and suicidal. While the comedian’s problems keep accumulating and escalating – a common thing in DL – they are not getting the attention they wanted. Funny-how, it was the only attention they have ever received from others. In effect, for the so-called stand-up comedian, it is even more difficult, to laugh about themselves, than it is for their audience. Humor with our DL is a weird shit-show, because the audience has the impression – at the expense of the comedian –  they are having fun, because they are being entertained and distracted from themselves, in the same way, as the comedian is distracted from him or herself with his or her stupid act.

 

My humor – which derives from my EL – is only for those, who, like me, see the importance of not laughing about others. My unwillingness to make you laugh, is to create an opportunity you otherwise might never have. I am well aware, you are eager to laugh about me, but I can’t allow it, as I know, what’s best for me, is also what’s best for you. If we are going to laugh, there’s some work to be done here and I am not going to do that work for you.

 

The old saying, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, is no longer applicable, because your negative DL, really isn’t a laughing matter. With EL, humor is about what you do unto yourself, what you say to yourself, what you do for yourself. I’m not doing anything unto you. I like my EL-humor better than the phony DL-humor, in which people laugh about others.

 

Don’t expect me to make you laugh. I told you, that laughing about yourself is where it is at. If you want to blame me or someone else for not being funny, blame yourself and I guarantee, it will not make you laugh. In other words, what you have done unto others never worked for you either, yet, you never took notice of it, so that you could live it up a little and have some fun about yourself, by yourself, with yourself.

 

Yes, you can do it, but first, you will have to stop expecting – with your DL – that others have to make you laugh. After that, you’ll notice – once your EL starts going – you are not such a hard ass anymore, because you really don’t need to or want to make yourself laugh either.

 

Surprisingly, just when you finally admit, what a meaningless, hopelessly, humorless life you live, you begin to giggle about yourself. It is still rather small, but it is good enough, as it is the real beginning of the new, funny you.               

 

 

 Why?

 

Why would anyone with their unintelligent, insensitive Disembodied Language (DL) want to talk with me? They don’t and it is perfectly fine with me. Forceful, unnatural, phony DL never interacts with my sensitive, intelligent, natural, original Embodied Language (EL). EL and DL are mutually exclusive, which means; if one stops, the other begins. My answer to the idiotic question, why our DL and our EL never meet, is, of course, very different from someone with DL.

 

People usually want to study psychology – I did – to know themselves better. However, the fact is, that psychology, like everything in academia, is taught with DL, and, consequently, the more they study, the further away, they move from themselves, because they are busy with others. The reason why psychology hasn’t and couldn’t have delivered, is that it doesn’t and couldn’t  address the DL/EL distinction, and, therefore, it only pays lip-service to self-knowledge. Why do I say, it couldn’t deliver and it couldn’t address the great importance of self-knowledge? I say that because, nobody in the field of psychology has acquired the self-knowledge, that can only be obtained by acknowledging and exploring the difference between their DL and EL. What people don’t know, they can’t teach to others.

 

Whatever it is, that people are taught, in the name of becoming a better communicator, it is nonsense, because it never involves the DL/EL distinction. Why is the whole issue of becoming a better communicator foolish? Well, we either engage in DL and engage in fake conversation or we engage in EL and we have real conversation. The ridiculous, obvious, undeniable fact, that even psychologists haven’t acknowledged this difference, tell us, psychology is based on bias.

 

Why does learning about research methods in psychology makes no sense? Well, in one of my previous posts, I wrote about the basic tenet of science: replicability. However, the so-called research, that has been done, in the name of psychology, cannot be replicated. Therefore, it is unscientific. Not surprisingly, there are, within the discipline, the same two – political – camps, we see in society, who – how could it be otherwise? – interpret these so-called data, in an entirely different manner. Presumably, they are working on this crisis, but they don’t even want to call it crisis, as this would – as it should – seriously undermine their credibility. Fact is, however, this communication-problem cannot  and will not be solved by their DL, which is the problem. Stated differently, it makes no sense at all, to have any faith in psychology, which, in the name of our stupid DL, is doing great harm, by only prescribing medications for undesirable behavior, which they are unable to change. Why is this even allowed? It is because we all engage unconsciously in DL. Only I can say this with EL.

 

None of this disgusting, Antisemitism, Marxist-Socialist, Anti-American, Pro-Hamas, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, Transgender-Wokism, but also none of this current homelessness, addiction, crime or so-called Mental Health Crises, would be the case, if our EL had been embraced, as the very essence of our psychological health. And why is Democracy itself in danger? It is because our DL is tearing apart the very fabric of our society.

 

With DL – in which we, as speakers, don’t listen to ourselves while we speak – we simply cannot and will not develop so-called critical thinking skills, because we are constantly in conflict and we endlessly are trying to deal with or recover from our negative emotions, which we can only properly – rationally – address with our ongoing EL. Why don’t we know this already? Even when we had a few, brief, accidental, fleeting good moments of EL, we didn’t achieve these experiences by deliberately, consciously, skillfully stopping our DL, so that we could have EL, as we have never stimulated each other, to listen to ourselves while we speak, so we could have ongoing EL.

 

The first and foremost thing to acknowledge about what is known as mental illness is: there is no illness. Yes, there are problems, but there is no illness. Why do we keep calling it – with our DL – illness, when we know and we have known this all along, that there is no illness? This is gas-lighting, psychological manipulation, because it is grossly misleading. In DL we are always pretending to know and defending lies.

 

Why is there no grand-scale experimentation in psychology going on, to identify and explore the existence of DL and EL, the two ways of talking, which determine everything in our lives? If we were to have ongoing EL, all the falsehoods we have believed in, due to our DL, will have to be left behind. Basically, everyone can have EL, but we aren’t having it, because we hang on to our biases and we are irrational. Why do we remain so irrational about ourselves? It is because our negative emotions from DL prevent rationality. Only the positive emotions of our ongoing EL,  can make us rational and wise about ourselves.    

 Memorial Day 2024,

 

Today, I honor my old sense of who I believed to be, with my Disembodied Language (DL), who gave his life, so I could be the free individual, who I am today, with Embodied Language (EL). I have fought, I got wounded, I was traumatized and I have died, with everyone, who has served, so that others may live. I am grateful and I feel responsible, because my freedom didn’t come by itself. Although, I am so free, that I am able to experience the language of freedom – to be who I am - which is my EL, I’m well-aware, that most people, who have the same freedom as me, still adhere to dumb group-behavior – DL – which doesn’t allow them to be themselves.

 

If people, who live in the United States – or in any other country, where the fortunate citizens have individual rights – do not take the saying, that, freedom is not free, serious, they will go on, unknowingly, with language that prevents them from being free. DL is a group-behavior, which has to be stopped, before we can be free as individuals. Freedom, for someone like me – who went through and survived many battles, who, because of that, is now capable of having ongoing EL – is the expression of my Language Enlightenment (LE). My freedom is available to everyone, who is still suffering from endless DL. With me, this suffering is going to come to an end and they will be able to enjoy their own EL.

 

I am aware about the widening gap, between the public and service members, which, to me, is similar to the fact, that everyone keeps going with their DL, while almost nobody wants to acknowledge the necessity of EL. What people gave their lives for isn’t validated by those, who have never done anything to be free. Likewise, EL isn’t recognized – as it should be – as the language of the individual, without which our society, which is built on individual freedom, is going to fall apart. This is already happening.

 

Memorial Day is meant to collectively mourn, remember and honor, the loss of those, who died, wearing the uniform of the United States, who died for the freedom, so others could do what they really want to do. However, if you begin to listen to yourself while you speak, you can’t miss the fact, that again and again, you engage in an unnatural, effortful way of talking, which you don’t even want to be involved in. The DL, which we mechanically keep busy with, happens only, because we are not listening to ourselves while we speak. In effect, we have given up on our own freedom, each time we, automatically, participate in DL again. In other words, we repeat our history of conditioning.  

 

As I was doing my graduate study in Psychology at Palo Alto University (PAU), I had wanted to do my internship with the Veterans Affairs (VA), but I was told, to my great disappointment, that I was too old – 53 – to qualify. I was and still am convinced, the field of psychology has dismally failed to deliver, particularly to veterans. At this point, I am no longer trying – as I did back then, because I viewed it as my duty, to reach out and help people in need – but it is as clear to me now, as it was back then, that psychology and psychiatry is utterly flawed, because the DL/EL distinction is not addressed. Nobody at PAU was sincere enough, to consider what I was saying. I had been promised, I would be able to choose my research topic, but once I had Advanced To Candidacy, I was told, by the arrogant prick of a director, that I would have to do uninteresting grunt-work for my supervisor and my own topic would have to wait till after graduating for PhD. This led me to withdraw from this expensive institute of liars. I am, however, as convinced today, as I was back in 2012, that EL would be incredibly valuable in the treatment of PTSD. It is astonishing, therapists or psychologist don’t want to find out about the DL/EL distinction.

 

Biden’s Memorial speech today, is a slap in the face of everyone who has served. He urges Americans to uphold democracy, but everything he does is anti-democratic. If it was up to his Radical-Marxist-Left-Wing-Administration, there are no borders, criminals aren’t prosecuted, we should all believe in transgender-mania, it is wrong to be love our county – let alone to make it great again – and nothing he says reminds us of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is because of Biden and his henchmen; America and many Democratic countries are witnessing a disgusting storm of Antisemitism. His foreign policy about Israel and Ukraine is a total mess. Biden panders to the Muslim vote, by criticizing Israel's war against Hamas and for whatever weird reason, he doesn't want to condemn Iran, which funds Islamic terrorism. Oddly, he claims to be the protector of Democracy, while he paints Trump as Hitler. This is divisive hogwash. Biden is an insult to the dead veterans. He is not a uniter, but a disgrace, to stand there at Arlington cemetery pretending to honor people. This pathetic, old, phony, creepy man is a clearly a shill for all the countries, which hate America, everything it stands for and want to destroy it. Biden is an imposter, who only reads a speech from a script, written for, not by him.     

 Weaponization,

 

Our Disembodied Language (DL) – which is our common, as of yet, unaddressed, demanding, fake, unnatural, unconscious way of talking - is and has always been, the weaponization of our language. Only if our DL has been stopped, by us ourselves, are we able to have fearless, authentic, intelligent, natural, creative Embodied Language (EL).

 

Our weaponized DL is truly an ugly, destructive, monstruous, but ubiquitous phenomenon. Indeed, in DL, we, as speakers, use our scripted, acted language as a weapon, to be able to win the battle for attention, so that we can dominate the audience or the listener. Weaponization is the act in which bacteria or poisonous chemicals are turned into weapons that could kill or injure people. Our usual way of talking sets the stage for how we deal with language and is always based on a struggle for attention. Inadvertently, other communicators are treated as adversaries, and, therefore, DL is aimed at outcompeting them, by any means necessary.

 

Weaponization of language also makes it possible to passively, stealthily, attack any group or individual. The freedom of speech has completely eroded, due to the weaponization of the internet. It is very clear, that particularly, conservative views are cancelled from all social and other media. As a consequence of incendiary language, to which there is no feed-back, free Democratic Western societies are now more polarized than ever.

 

Certainly, a way of talking – DL – precedes the weaponization of truth. Only when our DL has been stopped, by us, ourselves, can we finally begin to engage in ongoing EL, in which there is absolutely no struggle at all. Only with EL will we be able to speak meaningfully about how cancel-culture, made speaking the truth an act of control, rather than in invitation to freedom. Moreover, common phrases like, speaking truth to power, brutal honesty, standing your ground or making your voice heard, are examples of DL.

 

DL, which goes on, twenty-four-seven, around the world, is based on the continuation of fear. In other words, the intimidating, controlling, coercive, distractive or energy-draining effects of our DL, always involves the manipulation of someone else’s emotions. However, in DL, we are only able to influence others, with our own fake emotions. While we may be able to sway and bamboozle – hook, line and sinker – the shallow, phony, sentimental, positive as well as negative emotions of others, we ourselves have remained sadly incapable – with our disgusting sooth-saying and slimy-Newsom-sales-snake-oil – of experiencing, accepting and authentically expressing, our own feelings. The prize we pay, for DL’s weaponization of our feelings, is that we imagine ourselves to be in constant conflict. Weaponizing of emotions is when someone uses their emotional reaction and response to try to coerce and manipulate the behavior of others or how we ourselves are feeling right now.  

 

Why are so many people pretending, they can solve all their problems with medication? It is because of the weaponization of mental health. Clearly, in their advertising, the pharmaceutical industry uses psychological, therapeutic and mental health language in settings where we see and hear ordinary people – like us – talk about how happy and successful and healthy they are, by using all these medications and then, seemingly, they are not having any problems. In fact, our sanity, our own freedom and our own responsibility, to find our own solutions to our own problems, is constantly undermined, ridiculed and attacked, because, supposedly, a convenient, modern, scientific approach, with medicine, is the readily available, easy solution. Of course, the whole issue of mental health is in and off itself a contradiction in terms, as there exist no such thing as mental health. There is only the way in which we deal with our language. It is our DL, which determines that we are vulnerable to being gas-lighted, into medicating, instead of addressing, changing and solving our problems.

 

The weaponization of everything, is a phrase – which derives from our involvement in DL – referring to an expansion of the definition of what a weapon is, and correspondingly to an extension of what constitutes a treat, attack or defense. We were all conditioned by DL and it isn’t until we begin to have ongoing EL, that we can acknowledge and process, why language was weaponized against us from the get-go. The aforementioned expansion and distribution are so hard to identify, since we are almost permanently exposed to and involved in DL. The old saying, if you only have a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail, describes how our DL basically determines everything. Also check out my two You Tube channels where I read this text: maximuspeperkamp-hw8sw or Maximus Peperkamp.  Let me hear from you.                       

 Wrong,

 

Our usual way of talking is completely wrong. How can it right, if we don’t listen to ourselves while we speak? We have accepted this absurd way of talking against our will for way too long. We don’t even know; this is the root-cause of all the madness that is going on. Disembodied Language (DL) is everywhere, because when we don’t listen to ourselves while we speak, we are unconscious.

 

Embodied Language (EL), in which the speaker listens to him or herself, while he or she speaks, is the only right way of talking, because only in EL are we conscious. The difference between our EL and our DL is the difference between right and wrong. We have never talked about this, because to do so, would require, that we first stop our DL, so that we can have ongoing EL.

 

None of the many problems, which we – with DL – keep saying, are our problems, are actually the problem. Our DL is and has always been the problem and we have yet to acknowledge this. In DL, experts compete for the attention of the listener, the viewer or the reader. It is all about selling books, getting research published, getting an interview or attracting millions of followers on social media, but our EL simply doesn’t work in such a superficial way.

 

For many years – studying, working in mental health and teaching – I was part of psychology, which, so they say, has a credibility-crisis, but as long as the difference between DL and EL hasn’t been acknowledged, as long as our problematic way of talking – DL – hasn’t been scientifically recognized, psychologists keep failing to deliver. The endless bickering and hair-splitting among researchers about methodology, doesn’t make any difference, but the DL/EL distinction certainly would.

 

In the Scientific American, I read, psychology has a healthy willingness to face its problems. This is just not true, because like everyone else, they fight and argue, which means, they engage in DL and not EL. It is funny, because underneath the first sentence of this stupid article, is a drawing of what appears to be humans with see-through brains, which have messy spiraling, squiggly lines, that suggest troubling thoughts. Right underneath this illustration, it says, times are tough for young psychologists.

 

While there is never any problem replicating the enormous difference between DL and EL, there is a replicability and reproducibility crisis in psychology, which has been going on for as long as I can remember. Surely, without EL, this totally unacceptable lack of credibility is never going to be properly addressed, let alone, solved. Moreover, with our superstitious DL, psychology isn’t even a science. All psychologists should be interested – open to evidence – in finding out about the DL/EL distinction, but, like everyone else, they are conditioned to have DL.

 

Nobody wants to acknowledge, the ongoing methodological crisis stemming from failure to replicate many studies, is a problem of human interaction. Until now, science has always only insisted on written scientific language, which is published in peer-reviewed journals, but the obvious need for a spoken scientific language, has been ridiculed or completely ignored. Of course, this is where psychology goes wrong, because it is not at all like physics or chemistry.

 

The cartoonish illustration was also followed by a wrong comment of the author, who said, that a thought had been rattling in his head. Anyone who knows the difference between DL and EL, will have to come to terms with the scientific fact, that there is no language inside of us and therefore, there is no thought, no mind, as this is merely a metaphorical way of speaking about the neurons and neurotransmitters in our head. In other words, language is – always – overt, that is, outside of the human skin, observable, because it is either said, heard, written or read.

 

While there is a lot of talk going on these days about fake-news, conspiracy-theories, hoaxes and plain-old propaganda, psychologists can’t get their act together, as they can’t even seem to agree on the undeniable fact, that the field is in a major crisis. Two camps of, supposedly, very smart people are looking at the exact same data and coming to wildly different conclusions. This is an example of DL, where one speaker tries to outcompete the other. Psychologists must get their head out of their ass and do the right thing instead of the wrong thing. They should be leading by example: stop their own wrong DL, engage in EL - which is the scientifically correct and truly rational way of dealing with language - and deal with the facts.