Steve Randy Waldman — A tao of politics

Dialectical logic: seeing complements instead of opposition, paradox instead of contradiction.

Interfluidity
A tao of politics
Steve Randy Waldman

Innocent, Active And Accidental Semantics

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

How Language Is Used to Deceive You: Politics, Business, World Events, Sports, and Law (1989)

We need another word in our language, to drive home the impact of semantics and self-parasitism, on our Aggregate OODA loop:

aggregate observations,
perceptions and paradigms,
policy orientation,
consensus and distributed decision-making, and
assessments of local and aggregate actions.

"Auto-immune" is well known.

Aggregate-self-parasitism should be just as well known as self-fraud, or even fraud.

This book is about the range of habits & tools used by the diversity of social parasites, working in diverse trades .... applied to the realm of human language.

Any suggestions?

Alexander Reed Kelly — Capitalism Is Changing Our Language: Study

Researchers at UCLA put 1.5 million English-language books into a tool that catalogs phrase usage and found that “over the last 200 years there has been an ever-increasing use of particularly acquisitive words: ‘get’, ‘unique’, ‘individual’, ‘self’, ‘choose’; while over the same period ‘give’ and ‘obliged’ decreased,” Owen Hatherley writes at The Guardian.
The pattern only changed briefly during the relatively egalitarian Western period between the 1940s and the 1970s.
“What has happened over those 200 years was the rise to dominance of capitalism, which obviously changed, and changes, our language and thinking,” Hatherley continues. The results suggest that the English language has long been in the process of becoming a class language, where words that are sympathetic with capitalist values and perspective are accepted as “standard....

 As this tendency strengthens, it becomes increasingly obvious that society is not controlling its economic life, but is in part being controlled by it.” 

Truthdig
Capitalism Is Changing Our Language
Alexander Reed Kelly

Kevin Allen — How Language Shapes Your Organization

Cultural permission is the tone, attitude and language that emanates from the executive suite. It is a mantra, expressed in oft-used catch phrases and philosophies that move like waves through the organization. They get adopted and interpreted as actions to be followed. They become part of everyday lexicon and cultural idioms that people hear coming from the highest levels, and form a platform for what the organization believes and expects of its people. "Get it done!" "We will not be denied." "Take no prisoners!" These are just a few of the things I heard coming up in the business world, and from my perspective, no good came from any of them.

Read it at The Harvard Business Review | HBR Blog Network
How Language Shapes Your Organization
by Kevin Allen