who reads that should construe it to be anything more than a useful, rhetorical device that has very little basis as a concrete reality that will be acted upon.
Nobody who reads what I just wrote should construe that to be anything more than a series of symbols represented as black pixels on a white background in order to represent an opinion or view by me based on my own processing and parsing of words, sounds, and thoughts.
There is no nobody because that is an erroneous universal generalization that represents a distortion for the sake of impact and perhaps, brevity. I can say that most people would agree, everyone knows that, and any reasonable person would agree, but I would be manipulating you by symbolic means in ways you may not have investigated. I could use all kinds of logical fallacies that, unless you took the time to learn them and spot them, (and you should have, early on, in school) would easily persuade, confuse or refute you. Either way, I win.
When you were a little boy or girl, big people who had already learned the game of symbolic abstraction, taught you games that you were cajoled and forced to play. This was done on the game board called survival. Now, since you are older, have you noticed that, no matter how high we place being literate, logical and learned on a pedestal, all of that was mostly used to manipulate and control you all along the way. Loving parents, pastors, teachers, friends, etc., were using words and symbols to get what they wanted. Now, corporations and politicians are capitalizing on that in order to get what they want for themselves and those they hold to be worthy.
Take some time to investigate the distortions and deletions that are an aspect of language itself and you might just find yourself realizing some deep insights and wisdom in ways you could never imagine.
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