"A Simple Word Like Violence"

Libertina ^ | August 28, 2002 | Libertina

[Libertina]

LOL Thank you, I think :)

[dighton]

T--gh t-tt--s.

[Libertina]

And so our kids go through these crazy girations. They'll need to take gymnastics just to untangle their little knots from all this "learning."

[shaggy eel]

,,, this will sit well with this thread.

[RobRoy]

No, I meant it. I know how hard it is and you did a great job!

[Libertina]

PROGRESSIVE VIEW OF HUMANITY: Dividing people by their race, gender and class.

REACTIONARY VIEW OF HUMANITY: Dividing people by their values and behavior.
lol Thanks Shaggy Eel (?? haha) for this link. Loved the Dennis Prager definitions posted by Aunt Polgara. Seems like these definitions of so called "violence" will fit right in!

[Libertina]

LOL It's ok Robroy - I was just mulling over the "surprised" comment. :) Hey, when's the party at YOUR place??? FReepmail me!

[Consort]

Violence is maliciousness intentionally inflicted.

[Libertina]

Would that sometimes be evil though, rather than violence? I can think of situations of evil, which would not be violent. Are we too sloppy with our vocabulary? But in any case, I'm pretty sure a mean look is not violence. (Though a malevolent stare could show evil.)

[Consort]

I'll revise to "Violence is applied malice." Interpreting "violence" and "evil" broadly, I think all violence (by humans, not in nature) is evil, and malice is evil..I'm getting confused. Let's try: "Violence is applied malice and malice is applied evil."

[.30Carbine]

It's as if the Democratic Party, the Establishment Media, and the National Education Association all got together, picked up a copy of George Orwell's 1984, and started applying what they read therein to every action they performed thereafter, as though Orwell's words were a feasible treatise on how to run a well-ordered society.

"In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words - in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?"

[Libertina]

Appreciate you stopping by, .30Carbine. as though Orwell's words were a feasible treatise on how to run a well-ordered society
Rather unfortunately, not so inexplicably - the rats DO find Orwell feasible. And I believe they have all gotten together. Every day I hear that the libs have taken over such and such a city, & so and so institution. I am begining to wonder, what have they NOT infiltrated? And we were here the entire time, weren't we? The phases of growth of mans' institutions... they build up, they tear down. Round and round.

[TigersEye]

Very good article, Libertina! I hope it is widely read and taken seriously.

...as though Orwell's words were a feasible treatise on how to run a well-ordered society.

It is even as though Orwell's words create some sort of hypnotic trance that leads the sheeple to accept the 'slaughter house' of socialism as an unavoidable necessity of 'a well-ordered society'. Mass psychosis.

The word violence can indeed be properly used in a metaphorical sense rather than a literal one, in the right context. For example:

The indoctrination of children in government schools is no myth and no joke. It is quite insidious and the distortions of logic and the twisting of meanings outside of rational contexts does great violence to the ethical, moral and spiritual development of young minds.

See definition 2 below.

Main Entry: vi·o·lence
Pronunciation: 'vI-l&n(t)s, 'vI-&-
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 a : exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse
(as in effecting illegal entry into a house)
b : an instance of violent treatment or procedure
2 : injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation : OUTRAGE
3 a : intense, turbulent, or furious and often destructive action or force
b : vehement feeling or expression : FERVOR;
also : an instance of such action or feeling
c : a clashing or jarring quality : DISCORDANCE
4 : undue alteration (as of wording or sense in editing a text)

I especially like definition 4 given the context of this thread. ; )

[TigersEye]

I don't know why my link didn't work for the specific word violence. Here is the Merriam-Webster's home page, the online source of the definitions I quoted.

[Libertina]

The indoctrination of children in government schools is no myth and no joke. It is quite insidious and the distortions of logic and the twisting of meanings outside of rational contexts does great violence to the ethical, moral and spiritual development of young minds.
Thank you TigersEye. I wish YOU were in charge of writing the definitions as the local schools. Perhaps YOUR definition will mysteriously appear on some of the school walls in the future!

[.30Carbine]

The indoctrination of children in government schools is no myth and no joke. It is quite insidious and the distortions of logic and the twisting of meanings outside of rational contexts does great violence to the ethical, moral and spiritual development of young minds.

BUMP for Tiger's awesome quote, and Libertina's awesome article! Free Republic is so incredibly cool, and you guys are two reasons why.

(My dear Tiger, I am very proud of you!)

[Libertina]

Thank you .30Carbine for your very kind words. I wish it were as easy to correct errors as it is to spot them :(