04 May Words to Ponder #50
More words from Raoul Vaneigem
Everything that human beings do and undo passes through the mediation of language. The semantic realm is one of the main battlefields in the struggle between the will to live and the spirit of submission. The fight is unfair. Words serve Authority more faithfully than most humans. … The repetition of familiar signs is the foundation of ideology. … Let nobody underestimate the Authority’s ability to force feed its slaves with words to the point where they become slaves to those words themselves.
The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967)
Jan W
Posted at 14:23h, 04 MayNever heard of Raoul and thank you for introducing him. Wow — the surround sound and soundings of authoritarianism.