I recently transferred to the Ohio State Penitentiary, Ohio’s only super maximum security facility. I have been sent here not for any violative conduct but for merely communicating ideas and observations to the outside world. Those who tell the truth are terrorists
This situation provided me with a great deal of time to pace my cell and ponder the curious claims of my captors and in my ruminations I came upon some insight, I think, which applies not just to the specific war criminals who targeted me for my ideology, and not just the corrections control freaks who run the Ohio Department of Retribution and Corruption. I think I have discovered a general truth that applies to all of the hierarchy neofascists, particularly of the American variety; there is a psychological condition shared shared by all tyrants who assume the right to rule us.
In the beginning I assumed then to be liars. In my own circumstance, the neo- fascists consistently reinvented reality. Their descriptions of events were wholly false and inconsistent, their characterizations and conclusions irrational and incoherent. So,in my own laziness, I concluded that neofascists were simply dishonest, which is an easy conclusion to draw.
But what if they believe what they said?
Words are tools for communication, and for me to relate a concept to you, we must agree on the meaning of a word. By this view successful communication is based on mutual assent. If I tell you about “guerillas” and I mean freedom fighters, but you picture “gorillas” covered in fur and eating bananas we are not communicating so much as we are miscommunicating.
So, real communication requires agreement, cooperation, bilateral assent as to meaning of words. To communicate, we must proceed from an area of knowledge we access mutually.
But the neofascists are philosophically opposed to such concepts such as cooperation and mutual assent and bilateral anything. To communicate, to use language in a cooperative way, to limit the meanings of words to only the definitions that you expect those words to have, for a neofascist, would be to concede power to you. To permit you to jointly define words- which is what must happen in communication- is to a fascist the equivalent of abdicating his throne.
The neo-fascist must impose unilateral powers, even in the process of communicating; he reserves the right to redefine words and provide them any meaning he chooses, without consultation and without your assent or agreement. From this neofascist view of communication, which is really anti-communication, the neofascist is the sole authority over the meaning of words and what you think they mean is irrelevant.
Let me give you an example. ManCI Institutional Inspector Uriah Melton accused me of writing a “threat of bodily harm.” In the conduct report, Melton related the contents of a kite communication I sent to him, wherein I observed that the grievance process did not work; that staff were lawless, that I resolved to abandon the filing of grievances and accept that the institution operates outside the bounds of the law.
That was all I wrote. Reasonably, what is absent from the accusation is any kind of bodily harm. Objectively, no threat of any kind existed. However, that is only true so long as you interpret the word “threat” to mean a “threat” and so long as you mean “bodily harm” to mean “bodily” and “harm.” But if, on the the other hand, as a neofascists reserving the right to redefine words without notice or consultation you decide “threat of bodily harm” really means “writing observations you do personally do not like” then a threat of bodily harm is not only present, but perfectly obvious. And to clarify: I am not alleging dishonesty. I do not mean to say Inspector Melton falsely accused me of a rule violation he knew to be untrue. I am saying that Uriah Melton is a neofascist who reserves the right to decide what words mean, and in his unlimited authority, he redefined words, or more accurately, he assigned to the words the full meaning he decided they should have, irrespective of the working definition you or I may apply. He can do that. He has authority. You and I do not.
This important to keep in mind because the phenomenon I describe is far more insidious than mere “lying”; it is the assumption of authority to hijack language. Through the lens of this delusion shared by neofascists, they are not lying, and in fact, they cannot lie, because, as words mean whatever whey want them to mean, they are always telling the truth no matter what they say.
When the definition of “a threat of bodily harm” is expanded to include “anything written that you do not like” then it is true that the statement, “my aunt knits beautiful scarves” constitutes a “threat of bodily harm.”
Lying is obsolete when you simply redefine every word to mean what you want it to mean.
On a general level,what I am describing can be understood as an assault on language. Neofascist engage in violence against words and their meanings. In this too, the neo-fascists are consistent, as they employ violence everywhere. Capitalism is violence. The State is violence. The neo-Fascists point shotguns at our heads and now they even point a shotgun at the communication process.
Functional communication also requires us to proceed from an area of knowledge that we hold mutually. I cannot relate to you the significance of a shmifflegobble if you do not know what a shmifflegobble is. Before I can successfully communicate with you. I must first make the idea of a shmifflegobble common property, something accessible to both of us. To that end, I may explain that a shmifflegobble is a pink, spongy material that one rubs on paper to take to take away pencil marks. You would then understand that a shmifflegobble is a device you recognize as an eraser.
But neo-fascists cannot be bothered with such “open source” nonsense.
Proceeding from a position of unilateral power, they declare that they are exempt from the requirement that we proceed from an area of common knowledge. In fact, physiologically, neofascists oppose knowledge generally. They hold an innate suspicion of knowledge They despise it with a special and particular hatred. It is a neo-fascist virtue to proceed from a state of anti knowledge.
It is for this reason, for example, that the Manci Rules Infraction Board composed of Officer R.D. Waltz and Lieutenant K. Dahlby made the specific point of telling me that my presentation of what anarchism is and what it means is totally false, and then proceeded to tell me what anarchism is and what it means- even though, objectively, neither of them knew political science, philosophy or political theory from basket weaving.
They do not proceed from knowledge,but from anti knowledge. The less you know and more you declare in the absence of knowledge, the more you demonstrate authority, which is in the neo fascist view the ability, the capacity to be perfectly capricious and arbitrary.
Like George Dubya Bush, all neofascists are “the Decider(s)….”
What they say reality is, it is- whether it is or not. When proceedings from a state of perfect anti knowledge, the state of reality is irrelevant. Reality will be what you order it to be. Words will mean what you order them to mean.
It is important to point out here that taking all of this together, neo fascists are not able to engage in functional communication. In their mouths, words mean everything and nothing, so the traditional purpose of human communication- to transmit ideas through an agreed upon medium of symbols is turned on its head. Knowledge is a weapon to be used against you knowledge is denied and dismissed as irrelevent. The only purpose in engaging in the process of (mis)communication is to convey the limitlessness of the neofascist’s power. The only message communicated is “I am power, you are not.” The neofascist engages in the social relationship only for the purpose of demanding recognition of his unilateral authority, regardless of the ostensible content of the (mis)communication.
Every neofascist communication can be condensed as “I am beyond all limits of rules, laws, and conventions. I decide what words mean. Knowledge is irrelevant. You must recognize I have power and you have none.
Consider that what this truly represents is the neofascist colonization of the last public commons: Language- it is an invasion into the realm of words and symbols, hijacking all meaning and redefining value so that all words and language become value-less. It is a war not just on ideology, (which is certainly being waged) nor on ideas which intensifies daily, but a war waged upon the very essential building blocks of intellectul life its self.
Without words? No knowledge
Without knowledge? Silence