Trump has committed a crime that no one has mentioned so far, the crime of purposely addicting himself to telling lies. What kind of crime is it? It is a crime against humanity.
Why?
All humans speak at least one language: their mother tongue.
Trump has committed a crime that no one has mentioned so far, the crime of purposely addicting himself to telling lies. What kind of crime is it? It is a crime against humanity.
Why?
All humans speak at least one language: their mother tongue.
Why is it they can learn it?
Because nobody lies to babies.
What kind of activity is it to learn a language through immersion?
Codebreaking. Babies are codebreakers. One thing about codebreaking is that you have to kill two birds with one stone. You have to find the cipher and the cleartext at the same time (not one after the other). When a baby learns a language, babies discover two things at the same time: the language and the world baby is born into.
Can a baby learn a language when completely surrounded by liars? No. A completely corrupted message cannot be broken. But babies never have this problem. Nobody lies to babies.
But now we have Trump. He lies so much that he makes no distinction between lies and the truth. He lies so much that lying is part of his very being. Trump, as we say, will be Trump. But the Trump problem is not just about one man Trump. Trump teaches other people to lie. It is easy, he says: you invent lies and you keep repeating them. So he knows what he is doing. But he can’t stop himself and doesn’t want to. The same with his imitators.
Will society ever become a society of liars? No. But the damages that he and his imitators have done is already great. It is so easy to say, Fake News!
Language is one of those things that make us human. Language is developed to tell the truth. By consciously becoming an addict to telling lies; by teaching others to become the same kind of addict: Trump is committing a crime against humanity. (See also my blog (under construction): Nobody Lies to Babies.)
Trump has committed a crime that no one has mentioned so far, the crime of purposely addicting himself to telling lies. What kind of crime is it? It is a crime against humanity.
Why?
All humans speak at least one language: their mother tongue.
Why is it they can learn it?
Because nobody lies to babies.
What kind of activity is it to learn a language through immersion?
Codebreaking. Babies are codebreakers. One thing about codebreaking is that you have to kill two birds with one stone. You have to find the cipher and the cleartext at the same time (not one after the other). When a baby learns a language, babies discover two things at the same time: the language and the world baby is born into.
Can a baby learn a language when completely surrounded by liars? No. A completely corrupted message cannot be broken. But babies never have this problem. Nobody lies to babies.
But now we have Trump. He lies so much that he makes no distinction between lies and the truth. He lies so much that lying is part of his very being. Trump, as we say, will be Trump. But the Trump problem is not just about one man Trump. Trump teaches other people to lie. It is easy, he says: you invent lies and you keep repeating them. So he knows what he is doing. But he can’t stop himself and doesn’t want to. The same with his imitators.
Will society ever become a society of liars? No. But the damages that he and his imitators have done is already great. It is so easy to say, Fake News!
Language is one of those things that make us human. Language is developed to tell the truth. By consciously becoming an addict to telling lies; by teaching others to become the same kind of addict: Trump is committing a crime against humanity. (See also my blog (under construction): Nobody Lies to Babies.)