Here we go again! I’m sure some people think that I am a crazy old ranter who has a fixation on the human brain and AI. That’s OK. Think that while you can. No, I write about this topic because there’s a war going on and that war is for your brain and your thoughts. The recent Charlie Kirk psyop is one way you are being attacked. So many threads to this story that one gets confused and fights with those who have a different take on it. That’s what they want. Then there’s the “just throw them in the gulag and torture them until they change their mind. A little rough, I’d say, and it’s not that effective. They use it anyway. They’re sadists.

Speaking of effective, another way that your thinking gets rerouted is by Pete and rePete. Since those seeking to change our thinking own most all of the media they can create an echo chamber where certain things can be repeated over and over again. At some point, at least a few people begin to take what they are saying as the truth. Why, they could have you wiping your butt with sandpaper if they wanted. If you don’t believe me, then you must not remember the phrases we have all memorized, “Safe and effective,” and “a danger to our democracy.” How many people got suckered into that web of deceit?

I’m not going to talk about these ways of changing your mind today because I want to focus on a mind-changing method that’s as nefarious as it is effective. Language. Most folks don’t know that those who control language are in control. This method of mind changing is slow but sure. Change the language and you can change how people perceive reality, how they think. It’s slow and subtle, but it’s very effective.

I’m talking about AI again and all the other programs that tell us when our writing is right or wrong. Oh yeah! Picking on AI again! Yes, I am, but the programmers are the ones responsible for AI’s responses. They give AI its rights and wrongs and its biases. Over time those biases and rules can be used to transform the language thus transforming the way people think. 

Check out this sentence, “My life had been interrupted with a tragedy that took my family.”  AI insists that I must put the word “away” in after “took” so the sentence would read, “My life had been interrupted with a tragedy that took away my family.” In this case it’s more a matter of style rather than changing the meaning. I don’t like having my style crimped and neither should you. But there is a subtle difference in meaning. The first one tells you that the family is deceased while the second one could mean that it also could mean that they are just removed from your presence. For instance, there was a huge earthquake and the continent split in two leaving you on one side and your family on the other. Now they are away from you.

In any case, the above change suggested by AI is a softening of the meaning. It’s why we say a person passed away instead of they died. Died is a word too harsh and impolite for us to use. Don’t harsh my mellow, man.

Here’s another sentence, “I was on a walk feeling anything but carefree.” AI insists that the sentence should read, “I was on a walk feeling nothing but carefree.” In this case there is a drastic change in the meaning as well as style. The first sentence tells us that the character was feeling, though we don’t know what they were feeling. We just know they weren’t feeling carefree. The AI version turns that around to we were feeling only feelings of being carefree. It’s a totally different message.

Here’s one that’s just plain ridiculous, “It wasn’t long before we knew our sleuthing had not gone unnoticed.” AI would like this to change to, “It wasn’t long before we knew our sleeps had not gone unnoticed.” I got news for AI, sleuths don’t sleep. By the way, AI wants me to change the “for” in this last sentence to “about.”

Here’s one more attempt to twist my language: “We asked him if he would counsel with us when the time was right.” AI wants to change this to “We asked him if he would counsel us when the time was right.” Just a slight change in meaning here. The first sentence indicates a meeting where there is a discussion. The second sentence indicates that the other party is invited to counsel the speaker. A small change in meaning, but significant.

Over time, all these little changes add up. Now I can hear some of you saying I’m just an old fuddy dudy and I don’t know that language changes. Horse patooey on you! I do know that language changes. I had to learn Middle English in the university to be able to read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and I’ve a degree in English which means I’ve studied the language. I also know what George Orwell said about language. He believed that if language is corrupted or manipulated, it can corrupt the mind. “if thoughts can corrupt language, language can also corrupt thoughts,” This means that those who have control of language can change the perception of reality of everyone else.

Yes, I know that language changes over time, but the changes we are seeing are not organic. We are being coerced through a number of methods including our word programs that are forcing our belief system in a direction that’s only good for those who are pulling the strings. If you hadn’t noticed, those people are insane and full of horse patooey. If we don’t watch it, they will be having us all dress in latex body suits to keep us from being infected and using sandpaper to wipe our butts with.