falsity part 2

Yes, the falsity of language can be aggravating and frustrating... but so can everything else under the sun.

Mastery of language, however, gives you a fighting chance in this world of doublespeak, euphemisms, and jargon.

Language is power. I feel compelled to write all the time, despite the fact that half of it gets mangled, garbled, or completley taken wrong. And yet I still keep on doing it.

Why?

Because I love it. Everyone loves being good at somethig, and I'm good at this. Do I get paid for it? No, but who measures writing talent by how much money it makes?

James Frey, that guy made a lot of money... writing lies disguised as fact. Not a shred or ounce of truth in there, I suspect, and now that his credibility is shot I wonder if he thinks it was all worth it.

He probably does. But his audience doesn't.

Listen: Saddam Hussein has a book out. Scooter Libby has a book. Even Monica Lewinsky had a book, and that lying whore Judith Miller at the NY Times gets paid lots of cash to sleep with her sources and go to jail under the pretense that she is upholding the Constitution when really she is pulling a Susan McDougal and taking one for the criminal team she is in bed with...

Doesn't mean that these "authors" have anything good to say.

Despair not, when language sems to be an untameable beast out of your personal control.

They're just words.

They're tools to be used.

They're toys to be played with.

They are our creation. We are the gods of all the words ever created.

With that in mind, act accordingly.

Have a nice weekend, people.