Reboot?

You often hear about old movies being 'rebooted', old products given a 'reboot' don't you. I find the juvenilisation of language to be most annoying. They tend to use what i would term, 'reactive' language, which isn't surprising since the young are prone to reaction over thought, immediate and shallow gratification, and are severely underexposed. Orwell spoke about how people can be made stupid through the contraction of vocabulary. Most insightful. The 'contraction' of language we are seeing now, ever since the young became a dominant market force (that paradoxically makes the juvenile market easy for the corporation to dominate) is in terms of the contraction of understanding through the juvenilisation of language. Understanding things through juvenile language just serves to render one's appreciation of things shallow. This is especially so in an age where the young are deprived of two invaluable sources of knowledge - the older people, and other cultures. This is achieved by way of being fixated on their own age group via social media, and the 'information age' where everyone is assimilated to the standards of those few whom are ruling the world culturally and economically.

That ensures that the young are perpetuated in the most immature elements of their youth, as opposed to the past when the young actually matured. Maturity back then was, 'get rid of your stupidity so that you can do much more'. Maturity now is, 'do as much as you can being as stupid as you are.'

Hilarious isn't it, how 'the information age' and 'smartphones' actually narrows information and makes one stupid. The devil works through paradoxes.

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So i was reading this article about how an old 1980s style record player was going to be given the 'reboot'. You mean Technics found some unsold models of the SL1200, plugged it in, and found it worked?

It can't be a new version if it is a 'reboot'. You can mean that, but literally, no. A 'reboot' is, 'off and on again and pray everything will be what it USED TO BE'. You don't expect to reboot a Windows XP and be presented with a Windows 10. Yes, yes, you can if you just installed Windows 10. But the word 'reboot' in itself never did, doesn't, and never will, mean that. It just means restart. Back to where you were. That's all. And even then, it is a computer language, and has nothing to do with anything else, other than perhaps giving a person a 2nd kick up the arse whilst donned in a pair of Doc Martins. Keeping language for different purposes apart is important as it practices and enables us in appreciating things differently, rather than appreciating things only from one angle. To just transport the language of one arena to all others shows a general tendency to view things from one perspective and experience of things, whilst those controlling society are able to do so because they view things from a variety of angles. I recall some conversations i've had with the chinese, and when i talk about 'human rights', some would say, 'human rights cannot eat', or 'human rights too much trouble, cannot make money'. That is why they don't have human rights, and with the passage of time, being human means little other than 'eating' and being greedy for wealth, which is the central feature in their 'culture'. That's the point here. Learn to appreciate difference from its own vantage, its own terminology, it's own perspectives, as that will usually make you realise that life is more than what you've been underdeveloped to appreciate and thus depreciate in accordance with. The loss of power on the part of the people is oftentimes due to the elite being focused on all, whilst the rest are fixated on little enough for the elite to have a monopoly over all. So that is why i tend to fuss over things which others might think is no big deal. Unlike most, i can detect cornerstones, fulcrums, and all those little and seemingly inconsequential things that actually play a big part in maintaining big things. So when it comes to 'reboots', it is about computers, and especially Windows systems that Microsoft never wants to get right because people are still paying these motherfuckers money for getting it wrong.

.....your brain that is.

When it comes to remaking old record players, or turntables as some strangely call it, it is simply called a new version. 'We are producing a New Version of the Technics SL1200', not, 'We are rebooting the Technics SL1200', which means switching it off and on again, or giving it a 2nd kick for not starting up after the first. Language is powerful. Like the saying goes, 'the pen is mightier than the sword'.....'amongst the literate', they forgot to add. It can make you smart. But it can also make people stupid enough to warrant an article such as this. I wish a big bottom-feeding monster alien would come down to earth so that i can stick all these people into its mouth. If i have to keep saving people from their stupidity, when are we ever going to move on to doing something with their intelligence?

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