Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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Yesterday (September 5/2002) I wrote about the languaging of our elitist gurus headed by the guru of the gurus President George Bush. I expressed my feeling that these gurus are professional liars who disguise themselves as the experts while corrupting our languaging at the expense of common people. What bothers me is that we are being lied to by our gurus and yet we are not able to discern the gravity of this conditioning as this social lying is being hailed as the virtue of being smart and successful. For example, the show "Big Brother" is the so-called window of our reality where brainwashed people play the game of real life by lying and backstabbing each other for the purpose of winning the BIG BUCK. Today, Friday, there is another beautiful column by economist Paul Krugman in The New York Times. Krugman writes that out of the Bully’s Pulpit we hear the voice that
Please read this column and try to understand a better reality than the one regurgitated from the Bully's Pulpit. In particular, I was taken by the public relations campaign of the Republican Party to privatize Social Security by diverting payroll taxes into investment ‘personal accounts.’ Since the word ‘privatization’ has acquired a negative connotation with the recent plunge of the stock market the Republican Party has been selling the fraudulent idea that ‘personal accounts’ is not ‘privatization.’ And this reminds me of our Canadian health care gurus who do not want privatize health care but who want to have health care personal accounts. Krugman shares my same concern about the languaging of our gurus and writes that the Bully’s Pulpit spreads the gospel of double thinking, newspeak and the redefinition of words to rule out disloyal thoughts. Yes, we have a problem of languaging and President Bush’s languaging is the Biggest Problem. References Pertinent article published by Ensign The Bully's Pulpit, by PAUL KRUGMAN, The New York Times, September 6, 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/06/opinion/06KRUG.html?todaysheadlines The Big Bully, by Rebecca Knight, September 6, 2002 http://www.buzzflash.com/southern/2002/09/06_southern.html Medical Savings Accounts. Universal, Accessible, Portable, Comprehensive Health Care for Canadians, by Cynthia Ramsay, The Fraser Institute, 1998 http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/admin/books/files/MedicalSavingsAccounts.pdf |
