The mind of man is not in its entirety photogenic, particularly when it comes to the spoken or written word. Although some phrases may be recalled specifically, the general context goes through a process of synthesizing that arrives as a conceptual picture of it for memory, the details are still there but must go through a focused internal study to find them. (That is why we have reference books etc!)
Modern educated people today use many words from their learned vocabularies that are not chosen appropriately for the context in which they are used, sometimes intentionally, most times out of their own ignorance were they just seem to fit. This all leads to the listener or reader being unable to synthesize the context giving them an incomplete conceptual picture like a redacted, incomplete or edited picture. So what they might see from memory; the landscape may be yellow, the grass blue, the sun black, the clouds green, and the trees pink, which is nothing like the context of what the speaker or writer was trying to impart. Other times it may be or have a more subtle impact on the context but more than likely a key part of it like using may or can or may and shall inappropriately. Sometime and most prolific misuse is saying you believe something when in fact you don’t know or understand it. All of the fore mentioned degrades the understanding in our civil intercourse in fact bastardizes it.
This impairment of our communicative skills leads us to make assumptions like; putting someone in authority over others just because they may be skilled at a job, but not shown to be skilled in leadership.
Those today considered as intellectuals are more likely to be street wise manipulators as apposed to being intellectual in a general or well rounded educational sense.
Our educators today tend to teach manipulation of the general population by appealing to the emotional as apposed to intellectual enlightenment. Intellectual skills are part of what moves societies forward but rarely leads it constructively. Most truly intellectual people today are like the Germans after WWII, they deny association to the word “intellectual” like the Germans denied association to the word “Nazi”. Modern day, so called intellectuals are for the most part are self promoters as apposed to social or political innovators. They demean the very word “intellectual”.
Pollution is the hallmark of human civilizations. The most hazardous of pollution to humans is that of the pollution of the human mind some more so than others, but in modern times all. Most pollution of the human mind is caused by societies or cultures and is intentionally polluted to satisfy the ambitions of avarice.
This problem as far as the individual is concerned needs filtering today as much or more so than has ever been because modern communications between us has accelerated polluting at a rate that is unsustainable to the human condition. The only effective filter known is truth of fact applied to each and every pollutant thereby reducing the aggregate of the effects on humanity at large.
The truth of fact cannot be imposed on the individual it has to be self acquired and can only be so acquired by recognition of the pollution each holds within and then filtered with the truth. Once filtered is called enlightenment.
There is only one truth for each pollutant, the idea of multiple truths is just one such pollutant that has infected the minds of men. The truth of fact is established when no objective argument can refute it thus making it undeniable. The only thing that causes a change as to the truth is acquired human knowledge over time. As an individual if you don’t have the knowledge to objectively refute the otherwise known truth, you cannot then declare your own truth separate and apart from the otherwise known truth.
The truth does not exist in the subjective and can only be found by the objective applications of the human mind. The recognition of the reality of mankind's history does not establish the truth’s of today, but of yesterday!
GAP
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