Words are Triggers, Allowing Emotions to Control Our Lives
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
God, if there is one, must have a tremendous and somewhat
cruel sense of humor. He gave mankind strength, resilience, and in some, great
intelligence and wisdom. However, with the exception of a handful of the rarest
of individuals, He also placed great weakness in every human being, which is
usually triggered by often meaningless and baseless words.
Politicians and the mainstream media control their
supporters with the use of carefully chosen words and phrases. Throughout the
history of the world, tyrannical leaders used words to inspire loyalty and
incite violence on their behalf.
Love and hate, trust and fear, anger and understanding,
apathy and compassion, war and peace, these opposites are frequently twisted in
efforts to brainwash the uninformed.
Let me digress for a moment. I don’t have heroes. I do have
people and their ideas for whom I have great respect. I believe that the greatest
lessons in life are the result of listening to wise men and women and analyzing
what they tell us, deciding how their lessons might involve and improve our
lives. The character on the original Star Trek, Mr. Spock, was strong, using
his mental abilities to control every situation. He learned to remove emotion
from his life, with the exception of a single episode when emotion nearly
destroyed him.
Okay, that said, I decided to write this because for the
last 10 years, primarily for cathartic reasons. I have allowed myself to be
affected by words: specifically the cruel and hate-filled words of one old,
obese, mentally challenged man, and his irrelevant, illiterate, and self-aggrandizing
speech. I have actually used the words, “I hate Donald Trump,” more times than
I would like to admit. He is purposely destroying my country, a country which
could someday would have become the greatest in the history of the world.
From 2015 until today, Trump preached anger, hatred, and
violence in his name. He repeats his hundreds of thousands of lies constantly,
having learned and practiced one of Adolf Hitler’s most important precepts: “tell
the same lie over and over again, and the uninformed will eventually accept it
as the truth.” In the 21st century, we call these accepted lies, “alternative
facts.”
Science tells us that humans find no difference between
emotional and physical pain. If you share the beliefs of an individual who is
intentionally preaching division based on the principles, morals, and ideals which
separate us, his words may be “inspirational.” However, for others, like yours
truly, they place emotions of anger, fear, and uncertainty in the forefront of
our daily existence. I am one of the guilty ones.
I am making efforts every day to focus on the facts, facts which
are obvious to intelligent and informed Americans. I reject emotions, although
they often take power over my thoughts and actions. When I realize what is
happening inside me, I fight with myself in a conscious attempt to remove my
feelings and focus on the facts, on reality.
I tell you all of this because I am human, and that makes me
weak. I have not watched television programs calling themselves “the news,” since
November 9, 2016. The mainstream media was complicit in Trump’s illegitimate
victory the day before.
I refuse to be lied to and lies of omission are far more
damaging than blatant falsehoods. They always contain a small amount of truth, which
encourages the uninformed to accept stories not based on fact.
Not once in his life has Donald Trump spoken the truth. He
is incapable of surviving when his lies are exposed. He is a sexual predator,
including the probability that he is a pedophile. He is a convicted felon, a
traitor, and a lifelong criminal, including his violations of the Espionage
Act. This one, old, obese, brain-damaged man is the greatest danger in history
to not only world peace, but to the very existence of planet Earth.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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