614 martial law might not look like what you think
When martial law arrives, it might not look like what we think. Sometimes I like to remove the labels to see what might be really going on. Our language has a strong control over our thoughts. How we see the world around us is "framed" by the language we use to describe it. Language is coded with all of the good and bad of human culture: Euro-centrism and scarcity, equality and abundance. Which words we pick change our impression of the world we are witnessing. "A missionary spreading the good news to unsaved souls" sounds a lot different than "a foreign cult leader poisoning innocent minds." But they're both describing the same thing. When we remove the labels, we might not see the truth, but maybe we get a bit closer. Or attempt to. "An outsider attempting to convince a group that they're wrong and their right" is another way of describing the missionary's situation, but it removes the labels of religion and national...