Words, Weapons, and the Future of Humanity

Words are the greatest weapon. A superweapon if you will. Indestructible, and undeniable. When one uses words, the result of the fight becomes not who has the strongest weapon, but whoever can wield that weapon the most efficiently. Those with mastery over the wild world of words, often find themselves rising to fame and glory.

Writers are the greatest fighters. Through wars, famines, pandemics. The writer will be the one to rise up and make a difference, more than anyone else. One who wields a pen rather than a rifle, or a notepad rather than a launchpad, those are the ones that will leave the field victorious. It’s quite amazing how a simple phrase such as, ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’ can unite an entire peoples, or how books like The Communist Manifesto, led to the creation of an ideology that would be one of the most profound over the next few years.

Words have the power to change the way we see the world. They allow us to see the world through a new lens: a different perspective. They can open our eyes and allow us to see the truth, where there appears to be none. Books like 1984 and Animal Farm are George Orwell’s classics that have had a major, and still existing, effect on geopolitics. Recently, online Reddit posts have started an economic revolution against the rich 1%, using their own tactics against them.

This is the power of words. It is unended, unstoppable, and undefeatable if used properly. Often words are used properly, and powerfully, but this is not always in the best interest of the people. One can just look at Nazi Germany, Adolph Hitler, a mastermind with words and rhetoric, a genius at promotion and power, is just one example of this.

Hitler used his powerful words to lie and deceive the people he led. He used his power to promote policies that were inhuman and evil. Manipulating the masses, he cunningly placed himself in a position of power, where it should have been impossible to dislodge him. Marching his militaries into the many surrounding nations, he called his people to arms with a passion and performance that few had seen before. The people fell into line, and those that didn’t were branded as outsiders, unloyal, ungrateful, and, most of all…traitors.

Hitler’s words were twisted, planned, and executed with perfection. His expertise in speech made him a figure, that many poor, and hungry Germans looked up to. Hitler’s ability to lie and hide this through word choice and gesture allowed him to rally a nation devastated by World War 1, a nation inflated through inflation due to the great depression, and a nation full of anger, and hate.

Perhaps the legacy that Adolph Hitler would leave behind is one full of warnings: words are powerful but dangerous. If you possess the power of phrase and rhetoric then you have the ability to create, but also destroy.

Words, in general, should be treated with suspicion, by all. A book can tell you the sky is purple, but you’ll never really know unless you look outside - with our ever-growing reliance on mainstream media, and willingness to accept what they tell us as the truth, maybe the sky is a bit purple. The media is, and always will be, one of the biggest threats to our freedom, because no media company is unbiased, most, if not all, have a hidden agenda, an attempt to manipulate, to purchase power through the paper.

This is the world that we live in. It’s full of lies, and misinformation. Words can be used, to cause confusion and chaos, but there is hope. If others can write, so can we. We must write for freedom before we become locked in a world of mistrust forever. We can only hope that it’s not too late.

You could fight your way to freedom, or you can write to ensure that you never lose that freedom in the first place. One seems a lot easier than the other.

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