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In Reply to: "Mind Control Made Easy" on YouTube posted by MG on February 18, 2007 at 00:45:25:
Good critical thinking MG. You've hit on something by highlighting the use of such adjectives.
I'm currently doing some heavy reading on the historical impact of Darwin's work. How is this relevant, you ask? Bear with me, I think you'll find this just as fascinating as I do.
In an anthology of primary works, titled simply, Darwin, there are selections from the work of a French Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, called "The Phenomenon of Man". It is a convoluted theological theory disguised as a scientific treatise. It is followed in the anthology by 3 short reviews that criticise it. The one written by P.B.Medawar, a Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine, said the following things about Teilhard's work, which I think apply to Berg, Maria and Peter's writings:
"The Phenomenon of Man [substitute Family pub of your choice] cannot be read without a feeling of suffocation, a gasping and flailing around for sense. There is an argument in it, to be sure, -- a feeble argument, abominably expressed -- and this I shall expound in due course; but consider first the style, because it is the style that creates the illusion of content, and which is in some part the cause as well as merely the symptom of Teilhard's alarming apocalyptic seizures."
"But errors of fact or judgment of this kind are to be found throughout, and are not my immediate concern; notice instead the use of adjectives of excess.... Teilhard is for ever shouting at us: things or affairs are, in alphabetical order, astounding, colossal, endless, enormous, fantastic, giddy, hyper-immense, implacable, indefinite, inexhaustible, inextricable, infinite, infinitesimal, innumerable, irresistible, measureless, mega-monstrous, mysterious, prodigious, relentless, super-, ultra-, unbelievable, unbridled, unparalleled. When something is described as merely huge we feel let down. After this softening up process we are ready to take delivery of the neologisms...."
Neologisms being newly coined words.
