Media’s Two-Pronged Attack On America’s Vocabulary
It’s a fact; the American vocabulary is approximately 60% smaller than it was in the post-war era, by which I mean World War II.
Families spent time in conversation, and reading books, but today, all of that time is consumed by devices which simulate interpersonal communication. It may come as a shock to you that television was initially sold on the promise of bringing the whole family together, which today we all know never happens. And yet, we buy the same lie when it comes to our shiny, portable, interactive digital televisions known as smart phones. They’re always promising to bring us closer together. All my friends are always checking their phones to see when, for instance, that guy will get back to her; or when that girl will get back to him. Google promises that the phone can be used to set appointments more easily. But in effect, the devices always end up costing us authentic human fellowship rather than facilitating it – just like television. Friends, anyone?
I find myself, not surprisingly, as an older millennial and thus vastly less verbally intelligent than my grandfather of the Greatest Generation, at a loss for words. And I have realized why, in large regard, it’s so difficult to articulate the greatness of Fall. After all, the media has not only stunted my vocabulary and yours by dumbing it down so very much. After all, the news always seeks to report at a fifth grade level. So what happens, over the long term, is that people begin to talk like “the news.” Meaning that most “scholars” of liberal academia now speak at a fifth grade level; while the poor fifth graders, for their part, now speak at what would have been considered borderline retardation. And of course, this is how the FakeNews communicates, at this level of the contemporary fifth grader. It really brings whole new meaning to the question, “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?”
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But that’s not the only way that the media dumbs down our vocabulary. It also makes up words and phrases, or rather takes words and phrases from sources that aren’t credible. “Gay Marriage” began as one of these words. And so you see how very devastating the effects can become. So today, we really cannot appreciate such lost American pastimes of gaiety, for fear that we, if in a bout of thoroughly masculine gay sentiment – say, due to the joy our lawful, faithful wife may give us in the gay, sacred institution of heterosexual marriage – that somehow, we might be misconstrued as a sodomite.
Ah, I can’t say sodomite anymore. We can’t call whores whores; or promiscuous women what they are. Perhaps that’s why we are becoming precisely that; a nation of sodomites and whores. We must instead call whores “feminists” and respect their lifestyle choices of luring men to the grave, and turning their own bodies into the equivalent of a grand central station toilet. We can’t warn our youngsters to avoid the yeast of the whores. And it’s gotten to the point where the whores, the sodomites, have overrun the churches, and pastors can’t call them out for fear of offending them.
In any event, whereas most media, most “content” seeks to stifle your vocabulary and rob your own self-awareness, your own sense of Christ within, Fall gives that back to you. I rose to the top of PewTube by seeking to create contentedness rather than “content.” Content! Content isn’t art. There’s a big difference. Real art inspires, and you’ll desire to improve your vocabulary for having watched it. So it will literally increase your verbal IQ, making you smarter.
To sum; Media makes all of us dumber both by saturating the American collective consciousness in fifth-grade-level vocabulary and by using propaganda tactics to scare us out of voicing the dictates of our conscience. Fall, which by stark contrast is art, not merely “content” but “contentedness,” points to intelligence, which is epitomized in the person of Jesus Christ, America’s foundational faith, the Bible.
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