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"A word calls up echoes,
feelings intertwined with
thoughts,
reasons mingled with irrationality,
motives that lead nowhere,
and uncoordinated urges."
- Jacques
Ellul
"Words have power.
The wrong words can have devastating results."
- Eric H. Potruch
"People regard the dictionary as this
sacred book in which they have 100%
faith.
They don't even
think of a human
agency behind it."
- Michael Agnes, editor-in-chief of Webster's New
World College Dictionary
"The categorizations that are inherent in the
grammar and lexicon
of our language form
a preexisting set of categories of analysis
that we bring as a basic
framework to everything we do."
- John M. Ellis, Language, Thought and
Logic
"Words defined in terms of other words in a
system of abstract representation maroon us in a factitious, anthropized,
domesticated, and finite world, and render us susceptible to the
illusion that we can
manipulate and control reality in the same
way we can manipulate and
control its symbolic
representation." - Charles Eisenstein
"It is only because the word is mobile, because
it flies from one thing to another, that the intellect was sure to take it,
sooner or later, on the wing, while it was not settled on anything, and apply
it to an object which is not a thing and which, concealed till then, awaited
the coming of the word to pass from darkness to light." - Henri Bergson
Word is defined
as:
News
Rumor
A promise
A brief statement
A
term; a vocable
The divine
Word of God.
Verbal contention; dispute.
A
constituent part of a sentence.
Talk; discourse; speech;
language.
Signal; order; command; direction.
An
exchange of
views on some topic.
The text of a
vocal composition; lyrics.
An assurance or
promise; sworn intention.
The spoken
sign of a conception or an
idea.
A verbal signal; a password or
watchword.
The sacred writings of the
Christian religion.
Hostile or angry
remarks made back and forth.
Something said; an utterance, remark, or
comment.
New information about
specific and timely events.
A unit of
language that native speakers can
identify.
To use words, as in
discussion; to argue; to dispute.
A single component part of
human speech or language.
Account; tidings;
message; communication;
information.
A set of bits
constituting the smallest unit of addressable memory.
A brief remark or
observation; an
expression; a phrase, clause, or
short sentence.
The written or
printed character, or
combination of characters; symbolic expression of an object or
concept.
Language considered as implying the
faith or authority of the
individual who utters it;
statement; affirmation; declaration;
promise.
An articulate or vocal
sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal
sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by
custom expressing an idea or ideas.
Used
euphemistically in combination with the initial letter of a term that is considered offensive or taboo or that one does not want to utter.
A sound or a combination of
sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that
symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of
a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.
A
fundamental unit of storage in a
computer. The size of a word in a
particular computer architecture is one of
its chief distinguishing characteristics. The size of a
word is usually the same as the width
of the computer's data bus so it is possible
to read or write a
word in a single
operation. An instruction is usually one or more
words long and a
word can be used to hold a
whole number of characters. These
days, this nearly always means a whole number of bytes (eight bits),
most often 32 or 64 bits. In the past when six bit character sets were used, a
word might be a multiple of six bits,
e.g. 24 bits (four characters) in the ICL 1900 series.
"In the
beginning was the word, and while
the truth of this
biblical epigram remains a matter
of faith, we all accept as axiomatic
Shakespeare's observation that "a rose by any other name would
smell as sweet."
Words are more than descriptive; they
are also prescriptive. Indeed, we all know from
experience the power
that words have to
influence thinking and
behavior." - Ben Miles
"Creativity is a matter
of illusion. We take raw materials (ink,
paper, memory, perspective) and fashion something that, no
matter how faithful to our experience, is a
contrivance, an invention, an elaborate
shadow play. That's the
miracle - that we can
believe it at all, that these tools, imperfect as
they are, can stir us into trusting something
that is, on the most basic level, not actually there." - David L. Ulin
"Words
realize nothing, verify nothing to you, unless you have
suffered in your own person the
thing which the
words try to describe. A
powerful agent is the right
word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain; a close
approximation to it will answer, and much traveling is done in a well-enough
fashion by its help, but we do not welcome it and applaud it and rejoice in it
as we do when the right one blazes out on us. Whenever we come upon one of
those intensely right words in a
book or a
newspaper the resulting effect is
physical as well as spiritual, and electrically
prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and
tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry."
-Mark Twain
"Words, particularly nouns, force an infinity of
unique objects and processes into a finite number of categories. Words deny the
uniqueness of each moment and each
experience, reducing it to a "this" or a "that".
They grant us the power to
manipulate and control (with logic) the
things they refer to, but at the price of immediacy. Something is lost, the
essence of a thing. By generalizing particulars into
categories, words render invisible the differences among them. By labeling both
A and B a tree, and conditioning
ourselves to that label, we become blind to the differences between A and B.
The label affects our perception of
reality and the way we interact with it." -
Charles
Eisenstein
translate
1. to turn
from one language into another.
2. to
change the form, condition, nature, etc., of;
transform; convert.
3. to explain in terms that can be more easily
understood; interpret.
"Words by nature of their abstraction are inexact,
a degree removed from the particular objects, processes, and feelings to which
they refer, leaving us therefore to infer what the other person really meant,
and opening the way for misunderstanding. " -
Charles
EisensteinTranslation from one language to another is the
action of interpretation of the meaning of a text, and subsequent production of
an equivalent text that attempts to communicate the same message as the
original language.
Translation
must take into account constraints that include context, the rules of grammar
of the two languages, writing conventions, idioms and slang. Many times idioms
and slang, especially that used by social sub-cultures such as hippies, goths,
punks, preppies, hoods, gang-bangers, etcetera is
misinterpreted. Technical terms may be
misinterpreted as well if the
translator is not versed in the technical
jargon of the profession.
A common misconception is that there exists a
simple word-for-word correspondence between any two
languages, and that
translation is a straightforward
mechanical process. A word-for-word translation does not take into account
context, grammar, conventions, idioms and slang.
Translators, in the course of their work,
have shaped the very languages into which
they have translated.
Translators
have acted as bridges for conveying knowledge and
ideas between cultures
and civilizations.
Translators do not always accurately
interpret the text.
Fidelity pertains to the extent to which a
translation accurately renders the meaning
of the source text, without adding to or subtracting from it, without
intensifying or weakening any part of the meaning, and otherwise without
distorting it.
Transparency pertains to the extent to which a
translation appears to a native speaker of
the target language to have originally been
written in that language, and conforms to the language's grammatical, syntactic
and idiomatic conventions.
Current Western academic
translation practices claim to incorporate
the concepts of "fidelity" and "transparency"
foremost but translators do step beyond
the bounds of translation proper into the
realm of adaptation, with or without conscious
effort.
"While we are generally only conscious of messages
that are delivered linearly via some specific linguistic pattern, our nervous
system also absorbs messages of associational or juxtapositional natures." -
Edward Wilson & Wes Unruh
"Consisting of symbols
that are connected only arbitrarily to the
objects, attributes, and processes they
name, language is indeed a separate human realm, a human-created map or
representation of reality. Language has evolved
toward an infinite regression of symbols, words
defined in terms of each other, that distances us from reality. Abstracted too many levels from its source,
language maroons us in a factitious fantasy world, an unconscious story that
turns us into its victims." -
Charles
Eisenstein
"In reality, man is a being who lives in society
therefore a language is required which makes it possible to be always passing
from what is known to what is yet to be known. There must be a language whose
signs - which cannot be infinite in number - are extensible to an infinity of
things. This tendency of the sign to transfer itself from one object to another
is characteristic of human language." - Henri Bergson
Language is
always in a state of flux.The only
way humans can communicate concepts
that have no temporality is through symbols.
Common usage of
words shows the ability of adapting a
word to a new concept.
If the
word is commonly used in a
way different from how it had
previously
been used then the new concept
becomes a definition of the
word.
A
reader or listener may not have the
same conceptual image as
the writer or speaker intended.
Corruption
of conceptual images occurs
in two vital links.
The first link is from the mind of the writer or speaker to the
expression of the
conceptual image. The
writer or speaker can not perfectly reconstruct the
conceptual image as he or
she must symbolize the conceptual image by
verbalization or by written symbology in
words.
The second link is from
the senses of the listener or reader, his or her
eyes and ears,
to his or her mind which must
hear or see the
word symbols
and then attempt to reconstruct the conceptual
image in his or her mind
as originally conceived.
Two individuals
communicating through
words, written or spoken, that come
from the same culture and social group will necessarily understand one
another better than those that come
from a different culture or social group. Even within the same
culture and social groups
those with different experience sets such as age,
place of birth, social classification,
work experience
and hobbies will necessarily experience
corruption of the original conceptual image.
This
corruption is inevitable.
Words definitions may be corrupted or interchanged
by some speakers or
writers with the intent to deceive as in
propaganda.
"The slovenliness of our
language makes it easier for us to have
foolish thoughts. Words like objective, categorical,
effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit,
utilize, eliminate, liquidate, are used to dress up a simple statement and give
an air of scientific
impartiality to biased judgements.
Adjectives like epoch-making, epic, historic,
unforgettable, triumphant, age-old, inevitable, inexorable, veritable, are used
to dignify the sordid process of international politics.
Writing that aims at
glorifying war usually takes on an archaic
color, its characteristic words being:
realm, throne, chariot, mailed fist, trident, sword, shield, buckler, banner,
jackboot, clarion.
Foreign
words and
expressions such as cul de
sac, ancien regime, deus ex machina,
mutatis mutandis, status quo, gleichschaltung,
weltanschauung, are used to give an air of culture and elegance.
Bad writers, and
especially scientific,
political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the
notion that Latin or Greek words are
grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict,
extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, subaqueous, and hundreds of others
constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon numbers.
Meaningless
words abound.
It is normal to
come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. The
word
fascism has now no meaning except in so
far as it signifies "something not desirable." The
words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each
of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are
praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it
is a democracy.
Words of this kind are often used in a
consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own
private definition, but
allows his hearer to think he means something quite different. Statements like
Marshal Pétain was a true patriot, The Soviet press is the freest on
Earth, The Catholic Church is opposed to persecution,
are almost always made with intent to deceive.
Other
words used in variable meanings, in
most cases more or less dishonestly, are: class, totalitarian,
science, progressive, reactionary,
bourgeois, equality.
Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a
lifeless, imitative style.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one
turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a
cuttlefish spurting out ink.
In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of
politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly,
hatred, and schizophrenia. One ought to recognize that the present
political chaos is connected with the decay of
language, and that one can probably bring
about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Political language -
and with variations this is true of all
political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists
- is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder
respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind. One
cannot change this all in a moment, but one can
at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one
jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot,
Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other
lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin, where it belongs." -
George Orwell
"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word
was with God,
and the Word was God."
- John 1:1
In the beginning, there were no words as we know
them today,
no representational sounds, only the cries of the human animal.
The Original Language is locked deep inside all of us,
ready to
emerge whenever we shed the inhibitions of civilization.
The
vocalizations of passionate sexual abandon
are nothing other than the
Original Language remembered.
These utterances do not have meaning in
the way ordinary words do,
but they cannot be considered meaningless
either;
they are vectors of a communication far more honest and intimate
than any semantic exchange.
Any intensely emotional experience may also
elicit utterances of the Original Language - spontaneous vocalizations of
ecstasy, lamentation, glee, fear, rage, and so forth, as well as the cooing
noises we make at infants.
Surviving exclamations create primal
reverberations in the body and psyche - "Tada!" "Yahoo!" "Wow!" "Amen!" "Ahh"
"Oooh" Yippee!" - words in which the sound is the meaning.
Sanskrit
words and phrases often have an emotional resonance. Words like "Om," "Ah,"
"Ram" and others are considered not to denote or represent the divine, but to
actually be aspects of the divine.
In Native American languages a
mysterious identity between sound and meaning exists.
Names and nouns are
an intrinsic and inseparable aspect of the being named:
To name a being, or
any aspect or function of creation, actualizes that reality.
Chinese
culture has strong taboos against speaking aloud dark possibilities,
lest
it bring them into reality. Even in America, we still knock on wood.
-
adapted from Charles
Eisenstein
"That which in thee seeth and heareth, the Word of
the Lord, and the Mind the Father, God, differ not
one from the other; and the union of these is Life."
- Hermes Trimegistus
"As the
Sufi Junnaiyd of the madressa said,
the word of God came down
to man as rain to
soil, and the result was
mud, not clear
water." - Kim Stanley Robinson
The word "logos" in Greek has an
extraordinary range of meanings.
Logos means much more than
"word."
In the 300s BC, the time of
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, logos
described the faculty of human
reason, the knowledge
men possessed of the material world and an
understanding of the
way in which the
substrate of the universe manifests
itself in and as individual objects.
Logos develops a
connotative sense of a deepened
understanding of
reality giving man
the ability to recognize reality for what
reality is and to
understand the
rational principle that governs all
Creation.
The
Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria saw logos
as "wisdom personified," as
God's creative
principle, the principle of coherence undergirding the
universe.
Logos, for
Jesus, refers to
divine logic/reason of
God. This definition is Hellenized
Judaism's adaptation of the classical Greek concept of
logos as the
will of God.
"Listening not to me but to the
logos it is wise to agree
that all are one." - Heraclitus
linguistic relativity
hypothesis
weak linguistic relativity hypothesis
The weak linguistic relativity hypothesis claims that a
social culture's
language has a significant impact on how the
members of the social culture
perceive things. For example, concepts or
ideas that are prevalent in the culture may be
stated in concise ways (using one or a few words), whereas
concepts or ideas that
are foreign to the social culture
are more difficult to express (requiring many words.) Similarly, separate words
may exist to express distinctions considered important in that
social culture, or distinctions
concerning matters the social
culture considers important, whereas the same word may serve to refer to
what is in a different social
culture considered several different concepts.
strong linguistic relativity hypothesis
The strong linguistic relativity hypothesis claims that a
social culture's
language can express concepts unique to that
social culture that are impossible
to express in the language of another
social culture. This form of the
hypothesis has few adherents. It is generally argued that while some
concepts may be easier to express in some
languages than others, any
concept can be expressed by any
language with a sufficiently large vocabulary
(i.e. any language used as a first
language by human beings, as opposed to e.g.
trade jargons containing a very limited vocabulary), possibly in conjunction
with suitable extralinguistic information. (e.g. the
language of a
social culture that does not know
of cats may not have a word
for cats, but one could
still say in it something like "this type of animal here, even though we don't
have a word for it (yet).") Indeed, when any
social culture comes into
significant contact with a different social culture, it invariably either
borrows words from that social
culture's language to express
concepts alien to it, or coins new words with native
origins to refer to the foreign concepts.
hermeneuticsHermeneutics may be described
as the development and study of theories of the
interpretation and
understanding of texts.
In contemporary usage in religious studies,
hermeneutics refers to the study of the
interpretation of
religious texts.
Hermeneutics is more
broadly used in contemporary philosophy to
denote the study of theories and methods of the
interpretation of
all texts and systems of meaning. The concept of
"text" is here extended beyond written documents to any number of objects
subject to interpretation, such
as experiences.
A hermeneutic is defined
as a specific system or method for
interpretation, or
a specific theory of
interpretation.
In essence hermeneutics involves cultivating
the ability to understand things from somebody else's point of view, and to
appreciate the cultural and social forces that may have influenced their outlook.
Hermeneutics is the process of applying this understanding to
interpreting the
meaning of written texts and symbolic artifacts (such
as art or sculpture or architecture), which may be either historic or
contemporary.
The hermeneutic circle describes the process of
understanding a text hermeneutically.
The hermeneutic circle refers to
the idea that one's understanding of the text as a
whole is established by reference to the individual parts and one's
understanding of each individual part by reference to the whole. Neither the
whole text nor any individual part can be understood without reference to one
another, and hence, it is a circle. However, this circular character of
interpretation does
not make it impossible to
interpret a text;
rather, it stresses that the meaning of a text must be found within its
cultural, historical, and literary context.
A common use of the word hermeneutics refers to a process of scriptural
interpretation.
Throughout religious
history scholars and students of
religious texts have sought to mine the
wealth of their meanings by developing a variety of
different systems of hermeneutics.
Philosophical hermeneutics in particular can be
seen as a development of scriptural hermeneutics, providing a
theoretical backing for various
interpretive
projects. Thus, philosophical and scriptural
hermeneutics can be seen as mutually reinforcing practices.
Hermeneutics in the Western world, as a general science of text
interpretation, can
be traced back to two sources.
One source was the ancient Greek
rhetoricians' study of literature, which came to fruition in Alexandria.
The other source has been the Midrashic and Patristic traditions of
Biblical exegesis, which were contemporary with Hellenistic culture. Scholars
in antiquity expected a text to be coherent, consistent in grammar,
style and outlook, and they amended obscure or "decadent" readings to comply
with their codified rules. By extending the
perception of inherent
logic of texts, Greeks were able to attribute works
with uncertain origin.
Exegesis (from the Greek - 'to lead out')
involves an extensive and critical
interpretation of
an authoritative text, especially of a holy scripture, such as of the Old and
New Testaments of the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, the
Qur'an, etc. In Christianity revealed
exegesis considers that the Holy Ghost inspired the authors of the scriptural
texts, and so the words of those texts convey a divine revelation.
Exegesis also is used to describe the
elucidation of philosophical and legal texts.
Exegesis is
synonymous with hermeneutics.
Hermeneutic passions are the
desires to know
another and be known by them - to
create fellowship.
By empathetically entering into a
text - in a living interpretation of
a text - the reader both appreciates
the text as written and relates the text to his/her own personal
experiences.
"Our daily language, and, in most cases, our
so-called scientific language together with its logic, originated mostly in a
pre-scientific epoch and are largely elementalistic and absolutistic; which
must hamper successful reasoning and solutions." - Alfred Korzybski
"Language has creative force.Words are not merely
symbols that point to things; they call forth the reality and power of that
being mentioned." - Joseph Epes Brown
Language evolves
over time. When words are spoken the individual hearing the words
builds a conceptual image
of the spoken symbols. When words are read the
individual reading the words builds a conceptual
image of those written symbols. As language
evolves over time the meaning of a word, the symbol
of a conceptual image, may
and typically does vary from the conceptual
image that was originally conveyed by that word. Many
times a word gains richness and depth as it evolves. Other times a words
meaning is entirely changed, the word symbol morphs,
from what it originally meant to what it means today.
For example the word symbol
liberal was originally
defined as of, pertaining to, or befitting a freeman, esp. free by birth.
Liberal acts became
those actions appropriate for an adult person of free birth - a lady or a
gentleman - an action inappropriate for a serf, slave, peasant, landless
mechanics (tailors, cobblers, carpenters, blacksmiths, etc.) or a child.
Over time a connotation developed with use of the word
liberal.
A lady or a
gentleman branded as a
liberal acted licentious, lacked
moral restraint and exercised his or her freedom
to live excessively. (Liberated from moral
constraint.)
When
liberal was first used to
describe a form of government a liberal government was defined as a
representational form of government, democratic or republican, as
opposed to monarchies.
In an monarchical system the laws coming
down from on high are designed to propitiate or appease the landed
aristocracy whereas in an ideal
representative form of government the laws are designed
by the people with the peoples overall welfare in mind - unlike America today.
(Of course if the people do not have accurate information they
will be unable to make balanced decisions.)
{Note: Monarchies have always enriched the "noble" land owning
moneyed class as they have always been dependent upon them for physical
(military) and financial (taxes) support.}
Today those who
define themselves as liberal:
favor progress and reform of social
cultural institutions; favor or are in accord with the
concept of maximizing individual freedom; favor
freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or
expression; claim to be free from prejudice and bigotry while being
independently-minded, tolerant, unselfish and enlarged in spirit; claim not to
be bound by established traditional orthodox authoritarian attitudes,
conventional ideas, values, dogmas, etc. while being free of bigotry and
claiming to be tolerant of the ideas and behavior
of others.
A liberal
individual may show a willingness to make "liberal" donations; more than
sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse amounts freely or abundantly
given.
A liberal
interpretation of a rule or law is not strict or rigorous while
a liberal interpretation of the Bible is an
interpretation that is not literal.
A liberal education was defined
as an education based on the traditional arts and sciences that enlarge and
discipline the mind making it the master of its own powers - unlike the
educational system of today which is designed to create conforming automatons -
irrespective of the particular business or profession one may follow whereas
today a liberal education
connotes liberation from moral
constraint..
Although the definition of a
liberal as being morally
unrestrained or licentious is obsolete the opponents of
liberalism have done everything in their
power to revive this obsolete definition by
branding
liberals as morally unrestrained
or licentious opponents of established moral systems. (Homosexuals are not necessarily
liberal! The
homosexual Log Cabin Republicans are
Corporatists!)
Usage:
Liberal, Generous. Liberal is freeborn, and generous is highborn. The former is
opposed to the ordinary feelings of a servile state, and implies largeness of
spirit in giving, judging, acting, etc. The latter expresses that nobleness of
soul which in the past was peculiarly appropriate to those of high rank, - a
spirit that goes out of self, and finds its enjoyment in consulting the
feelings and happiness of others. Generosity is measured by the extent of the
sacrifices it makes; liberality, by the warmth of feeling which it manifests.
"c. 1375; from old French, liberal "befitting free men, noble,
generous;" from Latin, liberalis "noble, generous;" literally, "pertaining to a
free man;" from liber "free;" from Proto-Indo-European base *leudheros; (Greek,
eleutheros "free"), probably originally "belonging to the people" (though the
precise semantic development is obscure), from *leudho- "people" (evolutions:
Old Church Slavonic, ljudu; Lithuanian, liaudis; Old English, leod; German,
Leute "nation, people"). Earliest reference in English is to the liberal arts
(Latin, artes liberales), the seven attainments directed to intellectual
enlargement, not immediate practical purpose, and thus deemed worthy of a free
man (the word in this sense was opposed to servile or mechanical). Sense of
"free in bestowing" is from 1387. With a meaning "free from restraint in speech
or action" (1490) liberal was used in the 16th century through the 17 century
as a term of reproach. It revived in a positive sense in the Enlightenment,
with a meaning "free from prejudice, tolerant," which emerged 1776-88. Purely
in reference to political opinion, "tending in favor of freedom and democracy"
it dates from 1801, from the French libéral, originally applied in
English by its opponents (often in French form and with suggestions of foreign
lawlessness) to the party favorable to individual political freedoms. But also
(especially in American politics) tending to mean "favorable to government
action to effect social change," which seems at times to draw more from the
religious sense of "free from prejudicial favor of traditional opinions and
established institutions" (and thus open to new ideas and plans of reform),
which dates from 1823." - Douglas Harper
"Language comes at the world
from a different angle, more oblique but in its own way just as telling, if you
read it right. The appearance of new phrases like "the liberal mindset" and
"hidden agenda"; the shifting meanings of elite, liberal, government, or
patriot; or even the fact that conservatives tend to say "you liberals" a lot
more than liberals say "you conservatives"- all these things testify to the way
political attitudes are embedded in the words that people use to express them."
- Geoffrey Nunberg
"Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of
existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them
with others." - Ambrose Bierce, Devil's DictionaryArchaically a conservative was a
preservative agent or principle. A
conservative human was concerned with preserving his or her
social culture and traditional way
of living by protecting it from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change
by avoiding excess. A conservative would want to
preserve the land for future generations.
Conservatives would, naturally, frown
upon any behavior that fell outside of accepted and practiced
social cultural norms.
Over
time the word symbol conservative took on
added connotations. A conservative now: is reluctant to accept change and new
ideas; favors traditional views and values;
is disposed to maintain existing
institutions in their current forms (sources of personal income?);
imagines himself or herself to be cautiously
moderate by conforming to the perceived standards and conventions laid down by
the media instead of being unimaginatively
conventional by adhering to those arbitrary conventions and bogus
standards.
As a modern political tradition,
conservatism traces to Edmund Burke's
opposition to the French Revolution (1790), but the word conservative is
not found in his writing. The word conservative was coined by
Edmund Burke's French disciples, (e.g.
Chateaubriand, who titled his journal defending clerical and
political restoration "Le Conservateur").
Conservative as the name of a British political faction first appeared
in an 1830 issue of the "Quarterly Review," in an unsigned article sometimes
attributed to John Wilson Croker. It replaced Tory (q.v.) by 1843, reflecting
both a change from the pejorative name (in use for 150 years) and repudiation
of some reactionary policies. Extended to similar spirits in other parties from
1845.
"c. 1380, from Old French, conserver; from Latin, conservare "to
keep, preserve."- Douglas
Harper
"Strictly speaking, conservatism is not a political system, but rather a way of looking at the
civil order. The conservative of Peru ... will differ greatly from those of
Australia, for though they may share a preference for things established, the
institutions and customs which they desire to preserve are not identical." - Russell Kirk
The neo-conservatives of
the George W Bush administration were radicals not
conservatives.
Conservatives are interested in preservation of
existing resources. The
neo-conservatives (neo-liberals to
much the rest of the world) were only interested in
exploiting resources for short term gain. The
neo-conservatives must have known
that embarking upon the path of global
hegemony was a and
radical course of action which could result in injury or ruin to the
American political system. The
neo-conservatives were also not
concerned with bringing about radical change by
fostering excess' in the financial sectors through radical
deregulation.
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thought image
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Rudyard Kipling
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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