Rampant generalities

[Michi]

Is it only the Germans who mostly talk in generalities?

It drives me up the wall hearing so many people here in Germany talking in generalities, like "One says ...", "One can't know ..." even when talking about themselves. It is soooo intransparent, inauthentic and gutless.

It has become the normal and is ingrained in the German language to talk in generalities and has become the Standard.

Perhaps it derives from the fear of being taken for granted, being accountable for but that's actually how it is supposed to be - being responsible for one's saying and actions.

On the other extreme, the number of laws have increased and are ever so increasing to "save" the phony individual from prosecution.
I wonder, is there a way back to authenticity and responsibility?

* @mods could you correct the title to "Rampant generalities" :Angel:

[ExomatrixTV]

"always"
"everybody"
"nobody"
"all the time"
"never"
"the only"
"they"
"them"
"all men"
"all women"
"the biggest"
"the smallest"
"you are with us ... or you are with the enemy" absolutist rhetoric.
etc. etc.

What these generalizing words/statements have in common is that so many people LOVE to "oversimplify" things (no nuance!) and use exaggerations that becomes a symbol or a representation of their "emotional state" ... The moment you try to reason with that "emotional state" you will notice that most do not care if it is not 100% correct what they claim >>> because "emotional wise" IT IS for them, lol and so many LOVES to join the same vibration often pure out of frustration.

A long time ago, I created this "wisdom quote" and used it many times:


Any generalization for or against is not doing any justice to the full spectrum of the unaltered truth ...And this behavior is worldwide, not just in one country!

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[shaberon]

And this behavior is worldwide, not just in one country!



I would suggest that as English is derived from German, that this is an inherent defect of the English language.

Moreover, if you look at people in their early 20s going to the WEF/Davos meetings, you can see it plainly.

The Save the World mentality.

These people with no experience have an army of words, which, ideally, they would craft an organization to enforce it on someone around the world.

For a while, they might have been unaware that such slogans have consequences such as Ukraine, but, this is no longer excusable. You can see through the naivete'--liberty, democracy, freedom and all this.


One of the best counter-arguments I have seen is from a German guy called Thorsten Pattberg, educated in Shanghai. He simply shows the difference between *respecting* a foreign culture on its own terms, versus projecting your superiority over it.

And so he talks about things like Biden as Emperor of the Universe, who takes over using his Mind. This is contradicted merely by seeing what China actually *does*.


What most of us fail to appreciate is that the only reason there was European education outside of the same old Latin Bible was due to the early missions to China. They were respectful and learned what they could of Confucianism and Chinese culture, returned this to Europe, which is the basis for Enlightenment, which is the basis of all elected government.


Granted, Europe did not "stay true" to this course, but re-molded it to a set of rather lame ideas that mean western mentality was invented by about six people in the 1600s. Coming up for review, compare the status quo now.

Let's see. China uplifted more people from poverty than Europe even has.

No, this tone of rhetoric is not observable from Arab or Persian sources. What we might call Orwellian Double-speak is a highly crafted psychological delusion that does not even share roots with Latin ideas.

[norman]

So that's where our English(German) royal family got it from.

Not so much in current times ( they've probably been told to stop doing it ) but for most of my life our royals couldn't open their mouths without saying one this and one that. They even got me doing a bit.