Language is fluid

Wednesday 11/19/25

Anyone who uses and favors the line, "Language is fluid," will be, at best, on the verge of illiteracy, and the line is their attempt to cover this up while also deflecting criticism towards someone else who is literate or that they fear is literate.

No person with a basic grasp of grammar and spelling--and that's leaving out the knowledge of what very basic words mean--will say this line, which is one of those lines that is said many, many, many times--whenever possible--by the type of person who says it at all.

The line is always used the exact same way by the exact same kind of person for the exact same reasons. Deflection, projection, cover-up, for the uneducated, ignorant, and insecure. This is how we become stupider. The tactics are similar to that of the bully. And peer pressure, because the norm now is to be very stupid. If you are not, the group will seek to punish and ostracize you.

The "adult" world doesn't exist at the level of individuals. It exists at the level of mortgages, say. But at the level of individual--of people--the adult world is simply a version of high school where most people are much fatter than they were back then and less educated than they were at the time. Because what they knew from high school--and everyone had to know something, or, at least, once upon a time they did, before the phones took over, and now AI--is gone.

That which was in their brains on a given school day on November 19, 2003 or November 19, 1987, is gone. They may not have been trying to learn. They likely weren't. But they did absorb a few things, as if by accident. Most adults are actually stupider than they were when they were sixteen. They are, amazingly, less intellectual, too, than they were then, when they had little to no intellectual interests at all.

The uneducated, ignorant, and illiterate--which such a person is because they choose to be; it's a choice, at least to some tangible degree--need to invert or else they'll feel awful about themselves. And if a mass societal inversion isn't achieved--in which being these things and being this way is a positive, and the opposite of being this things and that way is an extreme negative--they will be left behind. It's Darwinism, but in some kind of hellish, dystopian reverse. Rather than feel the crush of one's own ignorance and failings, they will attempt to weaponize that ignorance and those failings. The more this happens, the closer it gets to a totality--as it now is--the more the inversions pass not inversions but straight-ahead readouts of what's what and what should be what.

And what makes it so pernicious and hellish is that there are fewer and fewer victims of this inversion, fewer societal casualties, as we go along, because the percentage of people who are wholly uneducated and ignorant, and essentially illiterate, goes up, and up, and up. From eighty percent to ninety to ninety-five and so forth, until we're at 100% for all intents and purposes, by which I mean, there are only a handful of people left who aren't this way. Trace elements.

But what is even worse is that there's no one left to be even be able to see what is happening, what happened, what is. There's just a new world order. Values have been inverted. There are new standards, but they're anti-standards that people can't tell aren't gold standards, because people can't see anything for what it truly is. They can't tell. Which, as I've said again and again, is the single biggest issue with the world as we move closer to the end of what I'll call the human experiment.

In order not to be this way, you have to do what no one else does. You also have to avoid being influenced by your environment and the people around, which is virtually impossible unless there's something in you that few humans have ever had within them. Which you answer to and are loyal to and cultivate.

This will all require vast amounts of courage. And likely involve a hard life of little to no prospects and no relationships. If these are your standards for yourself, and you are looking for some variant, some approximation, of those standards in others--or even in one single other person than yourself--you are highly unlikely to ever find that because of everything I've discussed above.

Such is the world now with the mechanisms that are in place within that world, and the adherence to them, and subservience to them. A dependency that deepens by the day. With that deepening follows a daily, even hourly, lessening of free will, of agency, of the ability to do anything about this--to break the toxic, life-draining, soul-draining--connection if that's what someone even wanted. The adult that is trending back towards the womb cannot separate the mouth from the teat as it reverts to infant status in an adult's body, without an infant's curiosity towards the world, or anything in that world--a single corner of that world.

And you want to say, "It's just a line people say, chill." Nothing is just a line people say. Everything is an indication of something. It's part of a larger whole. Whether or not you can see that or not, and understand and correlate the provenance, is different. That's a you thing; it has no bearing on the reality thing, except insofar as reality is something that fewer and fewer people have any inkling of or relationship with in terms of common ground and comprehension.

Yeats' center couldn't hold and "mere" anarchy was unleashed because chaos became the status quo. Why "mere" anarchy? Because the chaos--the new normal in our parlance--becomes the quotidian. The everyday. The status quo doesn't stand out; it's what passes for "is." Then demons have free rein and can essentially install--to put it in computer terms--whatever programs and apps they wish to into what was once formerly, foundationally, human life. But the human portion of life has been cut out. Which we call different things. Progress. Convenience. Deride in all of our ways--old man yelling at a cloud, get off my lawn, tldr, etc. Measure in manners that present nothing but false positives, that no one is able to see for what they are.

A belief, for example, that someone is smarter or better or more viable or what they have created has greater appeal and value for our lives because they have a given number of followers on a social media platform, when the reason that person has those many followers is almost always because they are stupider, they are worse, what they have is less viable, interesting, valuable, and appealing, but they are like many other people, and that is what people want above all. The validation of not having to feel inferior.

When this is the validation one seeks and needs--a form of validation that is an oxymoron--then it becomes nearly impossible for those people--any of them, as constituted--to be inspired. To want to rise up, let alone to rise up. What's rising up? It's getting better. Doing better. It's personal salubrity. It's helping others. It's learning, growing, finding and partaking of wonder. Which is enthralling. It makes you feel alive like none of this other stuff does or can.

But people don't to feel alive. And they make the choices of their lives accordingly, so that they are essentially dead but moving around. We acclimate to our deadness. People go to prison, and they have lives within those walls. They have social systems. All of that. Their world becomes the world for them. The mega-rich person who lives a certain way on the outside of prison and who is then arrested and successfully prosecuted for the crimes that built them their wealth and incarcerated in turn comes to feel about the much lower stakes of their prison gambits exactly as they felt on the outside when millions of dollars were in play.

This is a truth of human nature. People now are voluntarily--in a fashion--electing to live within prisons without literally living in prisons. But it's a very similar idea to the one expressed in the last paragraph, but the cops and the feds aren't involved. And people don't even know they're within those walls and that they can leave them, because they can't tell what anything is.

Then you have billionaires and soon-to-be trillionaires, who exist to accumulate. Not to use or see what they accumulate. This is sociopathic wiring. The sociopath has no regard for others except how they might use others. The sociopath is impervious to suffering. The sociopath can watch a baby starve and feel nothing. These sociopaths will then--and already are--enslave all of the people that they can in order to accumulate even more.

Not just money, but power. It's as if rather than blood they have poison in their veins, and it's that poison that gives them life as such. Enslavement gets them going, makes their toxic hearts pump all the more mercilessly with those poisons. It's not "official" slavery, but there's nuance here, and considering that people can't tell what anything is, no matter how simple, no matter how straightforward, no matter if it's a flat image without shading or depth, they definitely can't parse nuance. They don't know what nuance is. Their eyes can't pick it up. Most of them won't even know, don't even know, what the very word "nuance" means.

And what are the enslaved people going to do? They can't call a halt to what's happening. The lack the brain power, the language skills, the courage, any strength in numbers, if they had these other things. But they can invert. With their inversion, everything is flipped. Values are scrambled. Good is bad, bad is good, etc.

The same as they equate volume of followers with positives, lack of followers with negatives, when the truth is, if someone says something bland and dumb, people will follow that; if someone says something insightful that no one else has said, that person won't be followed. It's not a value judgment, which is how almost everyone understands it to be. It's a statement--made by an insecure, diminishing, broken person--of commonality.

It is self-validation. Not affirmation. Not recognition. Not admiration. Not value. But rather a placebo. A stand-in for value. A sugar pill that the person taking it uses to assuage their fear that they are dying, that they are otherwise going to become no more, and fast, as a self-inflicted cancer--almost like some downloaded spiritual, emotional, mental, and intellectual death app--eats away their very human existence from both the inside out, and the outside in, in horrific concurrency, but they don't even know, because, again, they can't tell what anything is, especially when it comes to who they are. Who they really are. Takes too much, takes skills and attributes people possess less of every day, and for what reason? To be alone? To be unlike others?

Where's the incentive? But what's the incentive of basically being a dead, disconnected person who simply happens to be technically alive? The difference with scenario number two is that's simply what happens without trying, so no effort is required; whereas, much effort, and conscious decision making, and pursuing, is required in the first case. But what do you get? The knowledge that you are living the right way? Being the best you're able to be? What does that get you in this world as presently constituted? You need something on the outside--and something coming back. Even if you're me, and you're not.

What's to stop this if it's not already too late? A different inversion. A reversal of everything we do now, everything we say we value and is important, how we act, who we are, how we live our lives, how we deploy our brains. That's what we're talking: a 180 at the societal level. And the level of as many people in that society as possible, so that it's the majority and that wave multiples in turn washing over others as this becomes the norm, the recognized reality.

What are the chances of that? What are the chances of a dozen people right now being motivated to change what they're doing, what they're enabling, with all that entails? Again, the vision, the purpose, the commitment, the strength, the courage. It's hard. With many setbacks. A person is made to feel their considerable shortcomings and inadequacies. Who can handle feeling bad about themselves now? Worse?

But you have to in order to become better. Stronger. Smarter. To experience true connection. Which you won't do without much pain and heartache in your life, because connection requires you to put your pride, your insecurities, your hang-ups, your balls, your heart, your soul, right out there on the damn table for another to mash. To use against you. In what may be cold, draconian, torturous ways.

Not always. Sometimes, you'll just buckle in pain. But that is the nature of connection. Courage and vulnerability, and selflessness. That means you're not looking just to get attention or partner up or get laid or have someone to drink at the bar with on Friday nights. Whether it's romance or friendship. Or parenting. Or being someone's child as an adult. Or their brother or their sister. Their teacher. The eyes on their back, a wind in their sails.

This has never been easy. It's harder than ever now, because the chances are lower than at any time previously of your efforts, your sincerity, your selflessness, your concern, your friendship, your decency, your grace, your love, being reciprocated.

We're not just in the prison; we're so many of us in solitary confinement. And it often doesn't matter what labels apply to your life, or if you can check that dependent or spouse box on your tax forms, because we are so rarely connected now, whether that's to another human being, to ourselves, or even reality.

The latter doesn't change. Reality is reality. But what does change--what has changed in hellishly precipitous ways--is our ability to see reality for what it is. At which point, there's only Yeats' long-gone center, chaos, dysfunction, loneliness, isolation, delusion, ignorance, weakness, cravenness, narcissism, selfishness, desperation, enslavement in many forms, and the separation of the sanctity of true humanness from the ways in which we live our lives, as such, and call out for veneration, or chalk up as "good enough," or painlessly similar enough.