Several years ago we started the dictionary project to define some words or terms. This is an update. There have been additions and deletions. We believe what we have defined more reflect the true meanings.
Assisted
Suicide:
The ultimate reform of the Social Security System. If senior citizens
utilize assisted suicide en masse, the system's solvency can be
greatly enhanced.
British
Royal Family:
Founder of the family, William, started out as Capo di Tutti Capi of
Norman Mafia. Descendants and others built the organization into a
successful franchise over centuries, despite family infighting.
Today, family has no real role as they have been kicked upstairs to
mainly ceremonial positions. Currently undergoing branding crisis as
members are not terribly appealing as celebrity material. Family
should consider new ways of appealing to public. Should study the
life of Mr. Frank McCourt who turned a stupid and unappealing
childhood into an industry.
Change:
1. Old, To transform or convert. 2. New, Politically, whatever you
want it to mean.
Civil
Rights:
In truth, there can only be three: Life, Liberty and Property.
Anything else is the attempt of one group to secure privileges at the
expense of another group or society itself. Of the three above,
Property is the most important. If the individual's property is
secure, there is little reason for anyone to take his life or
liberty.
Communism:
Natural religious progression wherein lower caste man is made into
his own god and enslaved in his own name. Lasted far longer than
could possibly have been expected. Still claims believers in the
professorate.
Conversation:
1. Informal interchange of thoughts, information etc., by spoken
word; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
2.
Something always being proposed but never really happening. e.g.
Conversation on race or gender, etc. 3. Politically, a desire for a
monologue, not a dialogue.
Coverup:
Process of investigating government wrongdoing.
Democratic
Party:
American cargo cult masquerading as a political
association.
Demagogue:
Person who appeals to the emotions to gain power or fame. See also:
Politician.
Department
of Education:
American cabinet secretariat responsible for extracting money from
the public while convincing them that the decline in public education
is being arrested. Judging from the department's growth amidst
continuing school failure, policy is an unmitigated
success.
Election:
Auction in advance of stolen goods. (With thanks to H.L.
Mencken)
Equality:
In nature, an impossibility among the human species, which despite
evidence is almost universally desired.
Extreme Right Wing: Anyone or group with a worldview not to the left of the late Pol Pot's.
Feminism:
Formerly a movement to secure women rights to opportunities not
generally open to them. Today, the movement exists to secure power
for women who attend highly selective institutions. Practical effect
has been disastrous for less highly placed women who now have access
to the same stupid and boring occupations men have had to do for
eons. Current philosophy is heavy on misandry. The religious aspect
of the cult has one sacrament.
Iron
Law of government:
Everything eventually reduces to its absurd. If this is an actual law
of physics that exists in nature is not known. In politics and
government, it cannot be denied. Whereas in business a company can go
bankrupt (unless it is publicly favored), in the realm of government,
if (actually, when is more appropriate) a program attains absolute
failure, it becomes a candidate for increased funding (e.g. DARE,).
Microaggression:
Trivialities that give an aggrieved population without lives
something to whine about.
Nazi:
Common smoke screen name for National Socialist German Workers Party,
the German variant of socialism. The success of this party in
bringing ruin to most of Europe, its own population, as well as
racial enemies cannot be gainsaid. Its accomplishment was so complete
that the whole enterprise collapsed after only thirteen years of
operation, whereas the Soviet version started decades earlier and met
its demise several decades later. Impresario of German Socialism was
Adolph Hitler, a man with the soul of a ward boss who nevertheless
was able to foist his program on a nation with near universal
literacy and a very high degree of advanced education. Despite the
socialist nature of the ideology, other socialists have had amazing
success in making sure National Socialism is not identified as the
philosophical soul brother it is.
Political
Correctness:
A fear of knowledge. Under the regime of political correctness as
practiced in the United States and some other nations, any evidence
disproving accepted doctrine must be denied, if not suppressed.
Politician:
In the American democracy, generally a person who lies in seeking
election to public office because there is ample evidence of little
profit in speaking the truth (e.g. would Woodrow Wilson have been
reelected if his slogan had been "He's hasn't got us into war
yet, but, he intends to"?). See also demagogue.
Populist:
Highest form of demagogue.
Reform:
Word has no real meaning yet is impossible to oppose. The question,
"Are you against x reform?" can never be answered
negatively without destroying politically one who so answers no
matter the actual value of the reform proposed. The word's greatest
value is that it is as an accurate marker for poseurs.
Republican
Party:
American political association with no other permanent purpose than
to secure executive positions, legislative posts and patronage
emoluments.
Reverend:
1. Title marking certain persons who after serious study and piety
are ordained as suitable to lead and instruct the faithful. 2.
Honorific applied to certain class of charlatans (examples: Rev.
Paisley, Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Jackson)
Revolution:
A method by which one elite manipulates the masses to transfer power
from another elite due to real or perceived oppression. The success
or failure of the revolutionary party, once the ancien regime is
overthrown, depends on how well they manage their transition from
belief in ideology to practical management of the entity they have
stolen.
Self-esteem:
The psychological notion used to justify rampant egotism (with help
from Theodore Dalrymple)
Social
Justice Warrior (SJW): Voluntary thought police. In Orwell's 1984,
the Thought Police were an official part of the security service. It
is a tribute to the current system that the apparatus enforcing
mental conformity is unpaid, but relentless.
Social
Security:
The perfection of a system discovered by a Signor Ponzi wherein early
"investors" are paid off by the subscriptions of later
participants. System requires ever more contributors to stave off
inevitable collapse. Due to the default of Ponzi's path breaking
enterprise, he eventually suffered incarceration. Managers of our
Social Security system expect no such problems as they have tools to
deal with eventualities such as invisible default (i.e. one can start
collecting at age 105) or monetization.
Soviet
Union:
Several countries that were controlled by an apparatus known as the
Communist Party. For approximately seven decades said apparatus was
able to rob the people in their own name. Went out of business when
there was no more to rob.
Teachable
Moment: Opportunity for captive indoctrination.
Tolerance:
1. Old, permitting free expression of views one does not share. 2.
New, suppression of thought, or speech found uncomfortable by favored
groups.
Transgender
operations:
Current form of approved ritual mutilation.
University
- public:
A public university is mainly a large scale day care provider. Most
do some practical scientific research.
University
- private:
Private universities are generally smaller scale day care providers.
Very selective establishments exist mainly to mark the children of a
certain class or wealth as members of an elite.
War
on Drugs:
Growth industry whose constituency is well served by the government
regulations that propel it.
War
on Terrorism:
Campaign utilizing all the lessons of the drug war while
also inventing its own.
Woke: Ideological sleepwalkers.
