The One Word Spell

The One Word Spell

by

Whajonahle

I’ve been a writer for 24 years.  However, this is my first attempt at this new forum, the BLOG, the multi-media expression that appears to be the format of choice in the post millennium para-reality.  The “art” of written expression certainly has evolved quickly, almost as quickly as the attention span of the average person has dissipated.   You’ve got to be entertaining now, Jack!  More pics and fewer words, and Change Fonts to emphasize … get it man?

I have my doubts whether this media creates a situation of a million Voces Clamantis in Deserto, providing people with the illusion of actually having a voice, while only giving them an entirely fruitless but emotionally satisfying outlet for their frustration, or whether it actually IS an opportunity to reach a zillion readers around the world and make a difference in this insane, contrived, controlled Kulture.  I have a feeling the former is true, and we’re all Winston Smiths, tossing peas against a brick wall.  Nevertheless, I have to give it a go … I’ll begin by using the word Ken Kesey employed so effectively at the beginning of his great novel, Sometimes a Great Notion – 

Listen …

There is the BRAIN and there is the MIND.  They are two separate entities.  The brain is inside your skull and is an organic computer, a guidance mechanism, if you will.  Psycho-Cybernetics, by Maxwell Maltz,  described the brain as a guidance mechanism, much like the self-correcting guidance systems used in torpedo technology (if the torpedo starts to go off course, the mechanism corrects the direction).  If that theory were introduced today, perhaps the metaphor used would be a GPS system.  All the information, direction, and programming from the external environment causes us to behave and take action in certain directions, usually without any contemplation by the mind.  Most of the decisions we make, the opinions we have, or the conclusions we arrive at are completely thoughtless, stemming directly from the subconscious mind and the way it has been programmed – the “GPS system” simply takes over.  Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been forced to experience their lives less and less as whole, sentient beings, and trapped predominately on the GPS autopilot.  With increasing technology, this Magic control of human thoughts and behaviors has become increasingly enslaving to the general population. 

Yes, I use the word Magic because that‘s exactly what it is.  Our understanding of Magic tends to be  infantile.  Magic is not the intangible, metaphysical hocus pocus we have been led to believe, but is clearly defined by those involved in the occulted practices simply as the “imposition of Will on Reality.”  Whether this imposition is of scientific nature, such as the invention of the light bulb, or the manipulation of mass consciousness, as through advertising, it is Magic, nonetheless.  The old standard of the Zippo lighter to a caveman being “magical” will suffice for now, though in later articles, … er,  blogs … I will explore this concept, in itself, more.

One thing, however, is certain, that the Will originates in the MIND, not the brain.  The mind is non-local, as Dr. Julian Jaynes suggested in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.  By exerting their will on you and removing your focus from your mind (consciousness) toward your brain (unconscious GPS system), they are effectively removing YOUR Will-ful existence and replacing it with theirs, obviously toward their ends.  Just who “They” are is a topic for later. 

So …

How does this particular Magic work?

Like a computer (perhaps the computer was developed as a personification, or an even spookier thought: vice versa!), human brains are programmable.  We are born with instincts (like BIOS in a computer, and even the instincts of the human mind, such as the herding instinct, can be used against us) –  the rest is programmed.  It is important to remember that I am talking about the BRAIN and not the MIND, which is an independent, contemplative, cognizant entity.  The main tool used to program the human mind is Language.  Just as computer programmers use computer languages to give instructions to their machines, our parents, grandparents, teachers, churches, and yes, even the Magicians, give us the programming that “runs” our subconscious brains, and even our conscious minds, to some extent, depending on how much we let the language interfere and define our mindful perceptions.   Just how readily we accept the presentation of the world as it is given to us is confounding. 

*Consequently, as the parental influence is diminished, the other influences (institutionalized education, television, movies, the noise that passes for music, peer group memes, etc.) have a greater influence on the collective worldview.

When this language is used in an insidious way, for example, for the acceptance of industrial servitude, it is an Imposition of Will on others’ reality.  This is what a “Magic Spell”  is, in all sincerity (it is no coincidence that we all take years of “spelling” in “elementary” school).   In the following, I have taken one, simple example to help explain this use of language as Magic …

The One Word Spell

A particular way words can be used as spells is by one word having two separate, distinct meanings. This creates an “instruction dichotomy” in the brain.  The brain is actually receiving two instructions at once.  While one part of the brain is processing the word with one meaning, subconsciously, another meaning is being absorbed, affecting the individual’s “value” attached with the meaning of whatever is being said.  One word that illustrates this process, this schism in the brain – perhaps the most powerful in since the Industrial Revolution – is the word WORK.

"Work" actually has several definitions, but the definitions we are concerned with are the two main definitions:

Work: (to act or operate effectively: The pump will not work.  The plan works.), meaning to function (to perform a specified action or activity; work; operate: the computer isn't functioning now.  He rarely functions before noon.), and ...

Work, as it is used to mean employment: (Work: to be employed, especially as a means of earning one's livelihood: He hasn't worked for six weeks.)

[A third meaning: to toil, labor, perform, is also relevant -- actually derived from werk, the old English original meaning -- and will be addressed, but keep the first two in mind for now.  Obviously, a con man "working" a mark and other such definitions are negligible.]

* "Employ," itself, means "to use," so by definition, one who is employed is being "used."

As we are learning the language, we are introduced to the term “Work” as “Functioning,” as in, “it works” and “it’s working.”  Conversely, by definition, if it doesn’t ”work,” then it is not functioning and must be “BROKEN!” 

Now, when we introduce a second meaning of work, in this case, “EMPLOYED,” you find phrases such as, “I work,” meaning, “I am employed.”  So, in this sense, if a person is employed (i.e., has a J-O-B), the person is “WORKING.”  By the intrinsic connection with the meaning above, it is implied to the subconscious that if a person is not employed, does not have a J-O-B, then he or she is NOT “WORKING” and therefore is “BROKEN.”

Despite your Kulturization, being “employed” is NOT a natural state for man.  This is an idea developed in response to (or as a function of) the Industrial Revolution.  What is a functioning human, after all?  A functioning human breathes, eats, sleeps, reproduces; a functioning human is healthy, has no disease.  Of course, there are higher functions: a functioning human being thinks, reasons, observes; a functioning human loves, feels compassion, socializes; a functioning human being is curious, inventive, and driven.  None of these are requirements for the “functioning-working” person in Industry.

Yet, when someone asks you if you are “working,” the immediate assumption is that you are being asked if you are “employed.”  Therein lies the MAGIC.  If you are unemployed, the typical response is derision or sympathy.  The psychological connection between unemployed and broken is a neural association that runs deep in our Kulture.  Through social pressure and even one’s own guilt due to the association with being broken in some way if you don’t have a J-O-B, billions of worker bees buzz off to the hive without questioning the necessity, viability, immorality, or injustice of the Industrial paradigm.

It’s been magically connected in your head that if you are not working then you are broken; ipso facto, the entire Industrial system must also “work” because if it didn’t, YOU wouldn’t be broken if you didn’t participate.  It is truly a case of “the slaves becoming the slave drivers,” even to themselves, and the One Word Spell has a significant influence to this end.  In this way, the word “work” is a form of circular reasoning, a logical fallacy.  By defining a word thusly, it operates within the human brain as a self-perpetuating Petitio Principii.

*And what happens if you don’t participate?  You become BROKE because you have no money.  This idea is doubly reinforced with the slang term, making the magic all the more obvious.

Ask yourself this question:  Just how FUNCTIONING is a “working” (employed) person?  Typically, the American “working” class man does not read, except perhaps the sports page; he drinks a lot of beer, and often takes a bunch of prescribed medication; his diet is a combination of fast food and frozen dinners, fruits and vegetables are scarce; he is overweight, undernourished, and sleep deprived; he watches television a lot, and really, really likes really, really bad music; he stops learning as soon as the state tells him he doesn’t have to anymore; he has no appreciation for art, unless the “artist shakes her boobs and booty on MTV; he aligns himself with one of two political parties and let’s them do his thinking for him; he is usually in a bad marriage and would rather fantasize about the pornography on his computer than approach a live woman.

And what about that woman he’s in a bad marriage with?  Let’s take a look …

THE “WORKING WOMAN”

There is probably no better example of the contradictory application of the term “working” for industrial employment than its use in regard to women.  As Spengler pointed out in Decline of the West, and as is (rather, should be) obvious, the primary role of women in a culture is that of mother.  However, we live in Kultamerica, and that role has been compromised.  I’m not going to get into the reasons in this particular article, but it will certainly be a recurring theme throughout the Kultamerica Blog.

So …

Let’s take a look at what our Kulture considers a “working woman.”  This explicitly shows the blurred lines of “functioning” versus “employed,” and the trickery of “working” versus “broken.”  Take, for example, our Kulture’s IDEAL paradigm, the woman this Kulture would use as a POSTER BOY for modernity:

By today’s standards (viz., definitions), the “working-functioning woman” delays becoming a mother long after the onset of menses, when she is first biologically capable of conceiving.  She typically does so by altering her normal hormonal processes via pharmacological means (contraception*) and only rarely by abstinence.  In fact, the desire to reproduce isn’t curbed; rather, it is redefined as “sexual desires, sexuality, libido, etc.,” seemingly as an end in itself, as she engages in years of pseudo-sexual behavior.  This lustful vacation from reality is disguised as either “practicing” at a “loving” relationship, or the quest for “the One,” the man she will finally DECIDE to reproduce with.  Meanwhile, becoming a Mother is put aside to pursue other aspirations.

A spell has been cast upon her, the idea that industrial slavery is freedom.  She is either “working,” or she is “broken.”  She is convinced that having a career, a paycheck, a mortgage, a car payment, and a title (i.e., Manager, Lawyer, Doctor, Teacher, etc.) her life will have satisfaction, self-sufficiency, and meaning.   These goals are given greater gravitas than any natural human aspirations.  Becoming pregnant or eschewing any other natural inclinations would “get in the way.”

 *"birth control" is an intentional misnomer used by eugenicists to secure your tacit approval of their illicit goal.   The accurate term is "contraception."  To use the term “birth control” is to agree with the idea that there are simply too many useless eaters on the planet whose lives shouldn’t have existed in the first place; the only answer is to “control” the reproduction of the mASSes. 

So this “Working Woman” goes to college as a means to her end, a career.  She is trampified by the college Kulture, whether during this time she becomes a serial monogamist, a slut, a man-hating prude, or a combination of the three.

Often, by the time she graduates from college, she has terminated the natural, healthy process of pregnancy at least once, often multiple times.  This “Working-functioning” Woman graduates, sometimes with honors, but rarely honorably … but she has kept her EYE ON THE PRIZE – that coveted career and paycheck.  Thus, she becomes the “Working-employed” Woman.

As a “Working-employed” Woman, she is a victim of all the debt, time theft, and degradation that all “human resources” are subject to, from the first resume “submission” to retirement.  There is little difference between the male employed industrial slave and her. 

At the point her looks are beginning to fade, and she notices that the younger girls are getting the attention she once commanded, she decides it’s time to get married.  She chooses her husband in a fiscally prudent way.  There is a checklist.  Love and passion have been wasted in the pseudo-sexual behaviors of her younger years. 

Then comes “working woman” with the baby carriage …

She “chooses” to have a baby.  This “choice” isn’t dictated (sarcasm), it merely happens to coincide with the time she is secure enough in her slave-job and the biological window of reproduction in closing.  There has been no thought to the risks of age and pregnancy, though for years she was very aware of the “risks” of back alley abortions if Roe vs. Wade were ever overturned, because every woman who got pregnant in such a culture would run straight for a clothes hanger.  She “works (employed)” during the gestational period, again putting herself and the development of her child at risk because she read in a working woman’s magazine that it’s not a problem. 

Once the baby comes, she has exactly six weeks to bond.  She rarely breastfeeds because it’s “eewy,” and “why do it anyway when it will be a huge hassle when she goes ‘back to work?’”  That’s what Similac is there for!  After six weeks she passes the infant off to someone else for 10 hours a day.  The government and corporations (is there a difference?) even subsidize this practice, so she can get back to “work” and not have to be “broken” for too long.  The time she is with her child, the hours between commute and employment, is spent drained of energy.

 Because she has been so enrapt in her “self” long past the natural time to begin nurturing, the child is an OBJECT of her muted affection.  It is a play thing, a debit, an accessory. 

After a couple of years, the child is put in pre-school to begin the institutionalized indoctrination of Industry.  In school, that child’s head is filled with the same one-word spell that its mother’s was.  At home, its alimentary canal is filled with frozen entrees by Stoffer’s, hot dogs, and gallons of cow milk.

This is our Kulture’s “WORKING” woman.  This is the model we raise our little girls to aspire to be.  We do it in school.  We do it at home.  We do it with peers.  We have all been cast under the same One Word Spell.

For sure, today’s “working woman” more closely resembles the broken women in Huxley’s Brave New World  than an actual “functioning” female human being who contributes to her society in the vitally important role of mother.

*Anything less would be old fashioned, “it’s the year 2012, after all, not the dark ages!” (another form of Magic is to cast the recent past as primordial and barbaric, thereby putting the current times at odds with the “backward thinking” of yesteryear).

Juxtapose the “working-employed” mother with the unemployed (viz., not “working” – broken) mother of our Kulture.  Whether this occurs because this woman has not been seduced by the false sense of power that comes with a role in Industrial Slavery, or, more often “accidentally,” it has become so rare that instead of just being called “Mother,” it has been further defined, quite redundantly in my opinion, as “Stay at Home Mom.” 

Let’s assume the more unusual case.  When this woman becomes pregnant, she has the time to prepare for the coming birth.  She is acutely aware of the changes in the life within her.  Not stressed and exhausted by the Industrial world, she can focus on her health needs – rest, nutrition, and dealing with the emotions of pregnancy.  She has the time and energy to prepare physically and mentally for the coming changes in her life.   The environment, inside and out, can be calm and peaceful. 

When the child is born, she has one J-O-B – to be a Mother.  She bonds with the baby not for six weeks, but the entire infancy and beyond.  She can truly bond because she hasn’t any looming commitment that will ultimately tear her away.  Ideally, she hasn’t waited until she’s confronted with perimenopause before bringing this new life into the world, so her prefrontal cortex isn’t consumed with self-centeredness.   She breastfeeds the baby, not for six minutes but for at least 6 months, and if she’s an extremely good mother, a few years.

The child is raised knowing that he or she is valued over money, title, or position.  The mother takes pride in having the most important J-O-B in the world, that of Mother.  The child’s needs are met, lovingly, and through this, gains the self-worth needed to have a chance to actualize as a complete human being.

But that doesn’t mean she isn’t still under the Spell …

In our Kulture, the women who decide to raise their children in lieu of Industrial Servitude are the target of derision, and they often succumb to the pressure, feeling worth LESS than the “working mother.”  The spell insinuates itself on even the best intentioned and pure-hearted mothers.   The employed mothers are “working” mothers, so that means she is “BROKEN.”  Though there is TRUE POWER in raising the next generation, being around to effect their attitudes, beliefs, mores, and self-esteem, the Kulture around her constantly proclaims that she is powerless and weak because she doesn’t receive a paycheck, that she is lazy or useless because she has no corporate position.  Woven into this dangerous sophistry is the One Word Spell: Work, and it’s implied opposite: Broken.

SOME WILL SEE THE LIGHT

Now, if anyone were to objectively examine the facts of this example of the “working” woman versus the “broken” woman, the adjectives MUST BE reversed.  In terms of Motherhood, the “Working Woman” is actually very BROKEN, and the mother who does not participate in Industrial Slavery is NOT “broken,” but FUNCTIONING in her natural role as MOTHER.  SHE is the true “WORKING” Mother.

This isn’t about women, but about the spell.  Whether you agree or disagree that the WOMAN’S natural role is that of mother is irrelevant.  As demonstrated, both the “working” mother and the “broken” mother are under the influence of the Spell.  The state of the women in Kultamerica is merely a prime example of the effects of the spell that’s been cast.  If you doubt that major life philosophies and decisions could be influenced by a simple word: 

Why did you move your family from New York to Texas?  For work.

Why did you divorce your husband?  He wasn’t working.

Why did you wait until you were in your 30s to have a baby?  Because of my work.

Why didn’t you spend enough time with me, dad?  I was working.

How to Reverse the Curse

Certainly, it’s difficult to change the language when most people are not only unaware of its power, but have a limited command of the language to begin with.  However, you can loosen the stranglehold that this particular spell has by minor changes in the verbiage and choice of words YOU use in your everyday life.

First, realize the power language has on the conscious and subconscious life, then ...

Choose your words carefully:

1. Take one day and take note of how many times you hear the word “work” and focus on the meaning that’s intended and the meanings that could be implied. 
2. Eliminate the word “work” altogether from your own vocabulary.
3. Use function, or another word when you mean to say that something or someone performs a specific action correctly in terms of its role.
4.  Use employment when you are referring to a J-O-B.
5.  Use toil, labor, etc., when you mean to put in an effort.
6.  Be specific when you are explaining a task (eg., instead of, “I have to ‘work on’ the car today,” say, “I have to ‘fix the brakes,’ or, ‘change the oil.’”
7. If are unemployed and and someone asks if you’re “working,” proudly proclaim, “Yes, I work just  fine!”
8. If you are employed and someone asks you if you are “working,” proudly proclaim, “No, I’M BROKEN!”

How appealing would the industrial paradigm be if “work” had remained solely defined as the original English “werk” (to toil, labor, especially hard labor)?  Just how eager would the Agrarians be to ditch the shovel, hammer, and hoe, give up their land, and move to the city after the Civil War?  What pride would there be in Industrial Slavery above that of Agricultural Slavery, when the only difference is the shape and form of the “Massa?”

Only when the term “work” is given a positive meaning, independent upon its true meaning, does the cyclical reasoning bring the mind to a halt because the brain is lost in an infinite loop of illogic.  There’s the magic, boys and girls … Magic in the form of ONE SINGLE WORD!