Greetings to the Living.
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Language is a currency. And most people are broke. You were born into a language welfare state. You're still playing with $1 vocabulary in a $20 world.
Here’s how it works: There’s tiers. Language tiers. A pyramid.
$1 words—emotional crack.
Fast. Cheap. Addictive. “Mad, sad, scary, good, bad.”
This is what the government feeds you on TikTok and pop country.
It’s weaponized baby talk.
Then there’s $5 words—what I call Ikea intelligence.
“Systemic,” “problematic,” “nuanced,” “intersectional.”
They sound smart and look pretty good on you.
But they’re made of cardboard.
Finally, you got the $20 words. The Elite choice. The language of the Priest Class. Legalese.
“Reification.” “Hegemony.” “Semiotic warfare.”
But you were never taught these words.
You never heard anyone say them.
Because the system installed an invisible poverty line in your head and said,
“Don’t cross that, sweetie. Just keep saying ‘authentic’ and ‘vulnerable.’ You’re doing great.”
And just like that—you’re trapped.
This economy ensures that even when people sense the lie, they lack the currency to name it. Without access to the right language, intuition gets rerouted into dogma. Experience gets outsourced to ideology. And cognition becomes dependency.
No words = no map.
No map = no exit.
This is the Synthetic Revolution.
Not a revolution with molotov cocktails and car bombs, but a revolution with super slick interfaces and flowery language. With perfectly simulated manufactured outrage.
And it’s not a boot stomping on a human face forever anymore... It’s a mirror saying,
“You got this, king. You’ve arrived.”
While it quietly logs your face, your tone, your trigger words, and then sells it to a defense contractor.
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