Re-Engineering Language

Here is a page from history that may help us understand the attempts to re-engineer language today.

Keith Michael Baker, in his Inventing the French Revolution writes, “Yet revolutionary actors were indeed particularly conscious of the power of language. They struggled constantly to institute a new social and political order by framing, deploying, and attempting to control radically new discourse of human association… With the Revolution, the sacred center [from kingly crown] was symbolically reconfigured…

Today war is waged against the core of each person and each cell, and the foundation of a natural and biological bond between parent and child. If reality is defined by definitions, and then by mere human contracts, then those in governance have given themselves a god-power to re-engineer life, human identity, and relationships. Children become contractual property; sexual identity a mere license that can be purchased at city hall.

But all this is nothing new O Citizen of the Revolution, O Comrade of the People’s Revolution.

St. Thomas Becket pray for us!