Language is one of the biggest means of influence on the mind... These days, it’s all about manipulating terms like ‘equality, justice, minority, racism...’ Oh, and ‘terrorism.’

This is roughly how it works: first you impose a new term or notion, perhaps a mere innocuous-sounding word... Like equality. Isn’t that a lovely word, a word full of right-sounding ideals and direction? Isn’t that something we would all want to achieve? Wouldn’t that pave the way to a better society? Surely it would... So of course, most of us embrace the concept at once, and often for all the right reasons... because equality is a beautiful concept to strive for.

Helas! By the time the new notion has been accepted by all the right-thinking people, the second phase is already in motion... The one that will twist what was good into something perverted and wrong. This happens every time a notion becomes an umbrella word that can shelter pretty much anything under the sun. Equality for men and women, for kids, for various ethnicities, for gays, for whales, for rats... By the time the word has been turned into an umbrella one, most of us have already lost perspective, because everything was done in such a pernicious way that... I guess I should now mention that little story I came across today while browsing the net on my phone, and which seems to sum up perfectly why we fall in the trap every time:

Someone wrote about the frog and the boiling pot of water. If you were to lower a frog down near boiling water, it would apparently jump away at once. Now, if you were to take the same frog and lowered it down a cold pot of water, it would happily jump in; and if you were to start heating the pot to boiling point... The frog would boil in it to death. It would not try to escape because it wouldn’t even realise what’s happening.


Isn’t that a wonderful metaphore for conditioning? And that is exactly what is happening to us. We are the frog stuck in a luck warm pot of water being slowly brought to boiling point, and when that happens, we’ll be dead before we know it. And by dead, I don’t necessarily mean physical death, but much, much worse: inner death. After all, we are not physically stuck in a slow-cooking pot of water - the mind is.
And the mind is exactly what makes us human in the first place.