"The Grenadan invasion, I have read, produced more
decorations than combatants. By the time it was over, Ronald
Reagan's presidency had proven the republic could still flex its
muscle--we could take out a Caribbean Marxist regime at will, Cuba
notwithstanding."-- Roger Ebert, reviewing the movie
Wag the Dog I have been always thinking about the languaging of
our elitist gurus who have been telling us to live in ambiguity
while they themselves live within the New World Order and preach the
science of instant democracy: either left or right or vice-versa.
Nothing new about instant democracy; we have had instant coffee for
a long time, instant families, instant wars and everything has to be
instant in our New World Order, so today we have instant democracy
by statistical polling.
I could never understand how our elitist gurus would always have
the instant right answer to any problem as common people would
wrestle with the complexity of our realities, how these gurus would
make more and more money than any common person as these same gurus
were paid the big buck to make the big instant decisions, how these
gurus would use their fragmentary and deterministic language as
these same gurus would camouflage themselves as the experts.
Today I understand that these gurus are emperors with no clothes.
I understand that these gurus have created an artificial language
for creating the science of a new Common Law called Tort Reform (No
Fault), another artificial language for creating the science of
Statistics, another artificial language for creating the future
science of classical Economics, another artificial language of
Politics, another artificial language of Accounting, and so forth.
And as we have created all these different languages so we have lost
our democracy and delegated the direction of our overall welfare to
the gurus.
Yes, I have known for a long time that there was an endemic
problem in our society, and genuinely I began to express this
problem as a problem of communication and I was right. But then I
had another problem I had to contend with, and this was the problem
of communication. How to communicate within ourselves and our
neighbours? And which language was the right one?
Would it be true that there was a language for the exercise of
Tort Reform (NO Fault), another language for Statistics, another
language for Economics, another language for Politics, another for
Accounting and yet so many other different languages? I became very
confused in dealing with the problem of communication and in the
meantime I coined the wording "professional liar" while working with
the Saskatchewan Health-Care Association under the big health care
guru Hewitt Helmsing.
As I was mentioning above, to day I understand what proper
communication is, it is languaging as defined by biologist Humberto
Maturana, that is co-ordination of behaviour, co-ordination of
people’s behaviour. But what do we find today? We don’t find
co-ordination of people’s behaviour in our communication! Our
languaging has been hijacked by our gurus, and the guru of the gurus
is President George Bush who wants to create the Department of
Homeland Security as fast as he can while launching a public
relations campaign prior to his perceived intention to attack Iraq.
President Bush wants to have the flexibility to fire and hire the
170,000 employees of the Homeland department and in this regard Sen.
Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said that
"There can not be a bill that does not give the president
reorganization flexibility, the ability to override collective
bargaining agreements in the name of national security and
personnel flexibility."
So we have a bushy president who is against the democratic
aspirations of common people. And in defending his needs to fire and
hire employees of the proposed Homeland department President Bush
has stated
"I need the flexibility to put the right people at the
right place at the right time to protect the American people --
and the Senate better get it right."
President Bush has it wrong again as you can have the right
people at the right place at the right time doing the wrong job!
References:
Pertinent articles published by Ensign
President Bush Thanks America's Workers at Labor Day Picnic.
Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
September 2, 2002 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020902.html
Senate tackles homeland security Democrats, Bush disagree over
management CNN, September 3, 2002 http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/03/senate.homeland/index.html
Our Freedom: Languaging and Putting People Before Money Mario
deSantis, Ensign September 24, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_400/desantis436/language.html
"Helmsing, SHA settle: Severance not disclosed", by Mark Wyatt,
The Leader Post, Regina, September 29, 1993
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/desam/paper-article-HelmsingSettlement-Sept29-93.htm |