Words as Forcefields: The Exile of Symbolic Speech

JR5

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This essay explores the dual nature of language: as a mere tool for conveying facts, and as a potent forcefield shaping perception, belief, and the very architecture of consciousness. Tracing language’s historical transformation from sacred initiator to flattened procedural instrument, it reveals how modernity’s empirical and managerial regimes manipulate symbols to colonize souls and control populations. Against this backdrop, the rise of AI language models presents new spiritual dangers by subtly altering our inner symbolic fields.

https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/words-as-forcefields-the-exile-of
 
Steve Jobs was said to be able to project a reality distortion field. When you were around him, all his ideas seems real and possible, but sometimes it gradually faded after getting away from him for a while.

I guess that's a kind of force field like you're describing.
 
You're joking right? That's called persuasion.
That's one way of looking at it. The original post spoke of a force field. I think this is kind of a stretch, but I can see the metaphor being used.

People around Jobs really did speak of a reality distortion field. Apparently he was exceptionally persuasive, to the point where people that heard him going on about his ideas would find themselves abandoning previous thoughts and beliefs about the topic, and agreeing with Jobs.

It was this power that allowed Jobs to get his engineering teams to make the innovative products he had in mind.

That being said, words don't really create a force field like in a Sci-Fi story.
 
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