The use of adopted terminology hints as to the ideology of the speaker.
mmonk, your list not only serves to highlight the usage of recycled verbiage it urges one to draw comparisons of "Coincidental" similarities between the Nazi Weltanschauung to that of our modern Neo-nazi-con's. I am utterly astonished that there are people here who continue to vehemently deny this as reality. All that is left for us is a debate as to how far the US has slid down that slippery slope to fascism but to deny it and fight its existence defies logic.
Surprisingly, this post is not getting the attention it deserves. I’m hoping this means that some DUers have their noses stuck in Naomi Klein’s latest book. :shrug:
Worldview and linguistics
"A worldview describes a consistent (to a varying degree) and integral sense of existence and provides a framework for generating, sustaining, and applying knowledge.
The linguistic relativity hypothesis of Benjamin Lee Whorf describes how the syntactic-semantic structure of a language becomes an underlying structure for the Weltanschauung of a people through the organization of the causal perception of the world and the linguistic categorization of entities. As linguistic categorization emerges as a representation of worldview and causality, it further modifies social perception and thereby leads to a continual interaction between language and perception.
The theory, or rather hypothesis, was well received in the late 1940s, but declined in prominence after a decade. In the 1990s, new research gave further support for the linguistic relativity theory, in the works of Stephen Levinson and his team at the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen, The Netherlands The theory has also gained attention through the work of Lera Boroditsky at Stanford University.
the language of the Third Reich, Weltanschauungen came to designate the instinctive understanding of complex geo-political problems by the Nazis, which allowed them to act in the name of a higher ideal and in accordance to their theory of the world. These acts perceived outside that unique Weltanschauung are now commonly perceived as acts of aggression, such as openly beginning invasions, twisting facts, and violating human rights."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view
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