propaganda -the power of words

propaganda -the power of words

From childhood the community 

gives us words with emotional charge,

words that haven't been adequately defined.

This word-trapped state serves as a guide

to our response each time that they're uttered.

In choosing to break out of 

this word-trapped state, it is necessary

to examine the origins of words,

 their origins, prefixes and suffixes,

In order to adjust these emotional reactions.

Words link together in our minds

in a very subtle manner.

There was a case reported a couple of years ago 

of a paediatrician being mobbed 

by unruly neighbours because 

in the minds of his attackers his occupation 

was connected with paedophilia.

Looking at the root of the word,

in that she loves her child,

every mother is a paedophile.

Clarity of definition frees us from the 

rule of propaganda; movements to

propagate and instil certain types of thinking.

It strips away the emotion with which 

words have been communally taught.

Words are restored to their true significance.

It is basic to Hindu logic that we can't 

mentally formulate thoughts without words.

It follows that if our words are muddied, 

then so must our thoughts be.

An anarchist can be defined as one who

advocates the absence of government

as a political ideal. It can also be defined as

one who is ruled by his own will, 

according to his own perfected vocabulary, 

and by none other.

There is also in Hindu philosophy

the term 'ahimsa' which means 'no harm'.

If love is defined as the selfless

working for development of 

the full potential in any being,

will there ever arise in mankind 

the state of loving anarchy?

Perhaps not in my lifetime.