DAVE | 2008-03-13
It is almost a "game over" advantage when you really get a handle on the role Wordism in human affairs.
It is like those Hendrix lyrics. "Is this life or is this confusion?"
I have become amazed, as I have come to understand Wordism, how many intelligent people are drawn into its snare.
We are trained in the nuances of the word "cat". We attend expensive coursework and become learned experts by studying tomes that are full of textured observations on the subject of "catness". We then subject ourselves to examinations and confer diplomas and licenses upon ourselves certifying our expertise on "cat".
But what we fail to do is look directly at that four-legged fury product of nature sitting on the window ledge and to think through the damn creature on our own.
If you can't explain anything simply, you don't have a handle on it.
But Wordism is "motivated" by those with a vested interest in confusion. This goes way beyond politics.
For example, Microsoft killed knowledge of data architecture (if Microsoft is anything, it is an educational institution and a heavy contributor to computer science programs) for the purpose of promoting the use of its proprietary database products.
Our society pays heavily for this for it is "motivated dereliction", a vested interest in ignorance, promoted by the commercial self-interest of Microsoft.
Today, even the commissions of the regulators responsible for America's accounting and auditing standards, under the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission, are completely ignorant of data architecture, making accounting and auditing standards ineffective, unnecessarily expensive (to the delight of the big CPA firms), and misdirected. It's a case of the blind leading the blind.
This suits the crooks just fine. Hence, we have a huge banking crises owing to out of control fraud and embezzlement and we have accounting and auditing "reforms" that have no hope of containing it, for there are too few people with any real knowledge of HOW to contain it.
See how it all relates?