Wittgenstein and the German Postmodernist philosophers knew that he who controls the Language/words will control the perceptions of the masses.
This is what Goebbels did so well, with Leni Riefenstahl. That is why it is SO important to CONTROL ALL information fed to the masses (JP Morgan bought all important AP organizations and publishing companies in early 1900s and controlled who made “president” at the influential universities and they funded the Teachers college and designed the curricula for schools.
It forms ‘Worldview” and “group think” and they are erasing Christianity from the minds of the masses, to destroy Individuality for “collective” thinking—been marginalizing and demeaning Christianity and mocking it, since the Monkey Trials. GK Chesterton and CS Lewis attack this frontal assault on the Western Worldview which created the Age of Reason and Science and the USA. But “individual Natural Rights from God is antithetical to Collectivism where individuals have to be culled and eliminated.
The Cultural Marxists also got control of schools (John Dewey) and used “operant conditioning” in all curricula to force “opinion” into the Marxist/Atheist/Satanic one.
The Left’s trick is to destroy language and twist all meanings-—so there is only confusion in debate.
There is no Reason in anything they debate or say. They put “homosexual” in front of the word “marriage” for decades, so that when the children grow up, the concept was normalized, and accepted, and the children are ignorant of Truth/God, that they are irrational and ignorant and can’t see through the false logic. The absurd becomes “normal” although it is irrational.
In 1984, Winston Smith’s friend, Syme, a phylologist and expert in Newspeak, admits to Winston that the goal of his department in the newest edition of the Newspeak dictionary is the destruction of words.
Why have a dozen words with a dozen shades of meaning describing, for example, qualities when you can simply use ‘good’ or ‘ungood’? It spares people the chore of thinking and encourages orthodoxy, or ‘goodthinking’ and discourages ‘thoughtcrime.’
Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist theoretician of the early 1900 disagreed strongly with Marx and Lenin about how the communist revolution would occur, especially in the capitalist west. Marx believed that the workers in the west would arise spontaneously against the system. Gramsci believed that that would never happen and he was right.
He instead asserted that if you want to take over the west you have to do it through what he called “the long march through the institutions”, i.e. the taking over by leftist infiltrators of governmental, social and cultural institutions (i.e. government agencies, schools, media, entertainment, sports, armed forces,etc). He recognized that this would take a long time, but in the end it would succeed better than brute force because the people could then be peacefully indoctrinated (through schools, media, entertainment) in the socialist or communist culture, and would achieve a consensus which the people would be fooled into thinking they freely arrived at.
You must admit they’ve done rather well. They have indeed taken over the schools, the media, entertainment, government agencies, and most recently the armed forces and sports.