Misinformation,

 

I don’t care about any of the definitions, which are given to us by those, who engage in Disembodied Language (DL), but misinformation, as far as I am concerned, isn’t part of the Embodied Language (EL) I stand for. You may be surprised to learn, that there is more misinformation and dangerous fad out there, than there is simple and factual information about what it is actually like, to use our language for our own individual benefit. I don’t mean to say, our  EL-happiness happens at the expense of others, as it  happens, in spite of the DL-unhappiness of others. 

 

Unless we talk out loud with ourselves, to explore and enjoy our EL – instead of remaining involved in the energy-draining DL with others – we will not be able to have any EL with others. And, there is a lot of misinformation out there, about what it actually takes and what it is really like, to do our own thing or to even simply stay with ourselves. In DL, people argue endlessly about having so-called moral clarity, so that, presumably, we can be on the right side of history, with our support for this or that group, for the Israelis or for the Palestinians, for the Jews or for the Muslims, for Right-wing or Left-wing politics.

 

Although it is wonderful, that the U.S. Constitution heralds individual rights and freedoms, living free and pursuing happiness with DL, will continue to remain impossible. It is, therefore, written – and not spoken – misinformation, everyone is stuck with, because once we say and have conversation, about the great difference between DL and EL, it is crystal clear, that our unconscious, daily involvement in DL, contradicts our ideals of individualism and liberty.  

 

Only when we have ongoing EL – and, consequently, determine our lives from the perspective, afforded to us by our Language Enlightenment (LE) – are we  able to live up to the idea, each person, indeed, is an end in him or herself, as he or she is innately capable of acting in favor of his or her wellbeing (which, everyone hopefully knows, is the animating principle of the U.S. Constitution). However, since everything we have, up till now, defined, was the inevitable result of our mechanical engagement in DL, we need to morally re-define – with our ongoing EL – what it is like to be and to live like an individual.

 

For instance, with EL – we would all agree, that we do not think, which is merely, what we imagine and say we do, because in DL, we can’t speak freely – but we would really talk out loud with ourselves and with each other, about what it is actually like, to act on our own conscience and interests and to live like an individual. Moreover, we would treat language in the same way, as we would consider government as our servant, who protects our individual rights to life, liberty and property. This is a re-interpretation and re-conceptualization of the Freedom of Speech. It is only our spoken, ongoing EL, which is going to be able to recognize and secure – again and again, because our violent conditioning history with DL isn’t ended by the stroke of a pen – the blessings of liberty, not a written Declaration of Independence, which stated, it was instituted to establish justice.

 

In DL, people maintain the claim, that lawyers and judges have an obligation to speak the truth, but in EL, there is no compulsion, yet there is total faith in one’s own embodied sound, which represents one’s wellbeing and forms the basis for how one talks. In EL, we catch ourselves each time we revert back to DL, because we sound very different, when we are pressured, anxious, frustrated, distracted, confused or sad. To counter the far-reaching and devastating effects of misinformation, as well as other bias, it is essential, we learn to discern between DL and EL.

 

Only with ongoing EL –  not, by merely having a few haphazard moments of it – will each individual be free and capable of living their lives independently, in the way they choose, because violating the rights of others, is simply out of question. Here we see a new role for the justice system, which is to educate about the benefits of EL and the injustice of DL. At this moment – due to our DL, which, until now, has never been properly addressed – there is great confusion about even the most basic premises of the American legal system. The fundamental issue at stake is not, as everyone is inclined to believe, a political one – of whether government will be held to account as our servant or our master or whether it exists, as the Declaration promises, to secure our liberty or whether each of us only exists to serve the goals of the state – but a linguistic one. Everything  always depended and continues to depend on how we use language or how we are used by language.

 

There is the court, there is the so-called court of public opinion and then, there is our own individual experience, which is not an opinion, but a reality for which we only find words, if we engage in EL instead of DL. According to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), people who suffer mental health problems, have cognitive distortions, that is, they are troubled by misinformation, which they unconsciously recite with their language. However, EL is not about taking out only some of the self-defeating, false concepts, as it is about stopping with our DL, because our DL and EL are mutually exclusive. With EL, our language is in full support of our individual experience and we no longer depend on our government for justice.   

 

There are many misconceptions surrounding the  importance of our use of language. Misinformation is spread far and wide, due to our absurd refusal, to have EL with each other instead of DL. We rather fight wars and die – which may be a psychological war, in which we slowly die a spiritual death – than face the reality of how we use our language. We say that we have a mind, but what this basically implies, is, we are consumed and enslaved by our language. We childishly, obediently and unconsciously believe in lies and misinformation, perpetuated, generation upon generation, by our own DL, which isn’t some nefarious, imaginary, group-think, but a form of verbal, social contagion, we superstitiously repeat. The misinformation is in our own DL habit, which we first have to acknowledge, before we can stop it.