Intro
Good evening, I am your host Karen Hudes. This show is a weekly Series called the Network of Global Corporate Control that has been coming to you from DCTV for nearly two years. Today’s segment is live and is called “Reality.” Thanks to DCTV, Carmen Stanley, Studio Producer; Maurice Jackson, Audio and Prompter; and Krushae Starnes, Floor Director.
On the April 4th live segment, I said that the Series has achieved its purpose: to convince enough people that the world's assets belong to humankind, and that the Bretton Woods institutions, (that is, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) , including their Articles of Agreement, are there to serve humanity in a peaceful transition--the Global Currency Reset. - Karen Hudes
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On the April 4th live segment, I said that the Series has achieved its purpose: to convince enough people that the world's assets belong to humankind, and that the Bretton Woods institutions, (that is, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) , including their Articles of Agreement, are there to serve humanity in a peaceful transition--the Global Currency Reset. - Karen Hudes
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Real
Surreal
The Word of the Year for 2016 is surreal, with lookups of the word spiking for different reasons over the course of the year.
The definition of surreal is: “marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream.” It’s a relatively new word in English, only dating back to the 1930s, derived from descriptions of the artistic movement of the early 1900s known as surrealism.
It’s a word that is used to express a reaction to something shocking or surprising, a meaning which is built into its parts: the “real” of surreal is preceded by the French preposition sur, which means “over” or “above.” When we don’t believe or don’t want to believe what is real, we need a word for what seems “above” or “beyond” reality. Surreal is such a word. - Merriam-Webster
The definition of surreal is: “marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream.” It’s a relatively new word in English, only dating back to the 1930s, derived from descriptions of the artistic movement of the early 1900s known as surrealism.
It’s a word that is used to express a reaction to something shocking or surprising, a meaning which is built into its parts: the “real” of surreal is preceded by the French preposition sur, which means “over” or “above.” When we don’t believe or don’t want to believe what is real, we need a word for what seems “above” or “beyond” reality. Surreal is such a word. - Merriam-Webster
Post-truth
"The truth has become so devalued that what was once the gold standard of political debate is a worthless currency." - Oxford Dictionaries
Woke
The origins of woke. But where did this woke, with its pro-black meaning, originate? Woke itself, is much older than #StayWoke, and indeed had a meaning of being conscious of social systems of black oppression, among African Americans as early as the mid 20th century. The earliest example of a figurative meaning of woke that Oxford lexicographers could find is from 1962, when woke was listed in a glossary of African American slang with the definition ‘well informed, up-to-date’. This glossary was part of a 1962 article by the African American novelist William Melvin Kelley in the New York Times entitled “If you’re woke, you dig it’ about (among other things) how white beatniks were appropriating black slang.
By the following decade, we have evidence of it being used in a more explicit political context. In a 1972 play entitled Garvey Lives!, author Barry Beckham writes. “I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon stay woke. And I’m gon help him wake up other black folk”.
These examples, among others, provide evidence that woke with its pro-black political meaning dates back over 50 years in American usage. There are few examples of woke being used with this meaning in public writings in the late 20th century, but woke seems to have made a comeback in recent years. In her 2008 track ‘Master Teacher’, R&B star Erykah Badu sings “I stay woke”, and helps to bring this meaning of woke back into the public consciousness. However, it seems that the true woke renaissance coincided with the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, following the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013. Indeed, building on the association between woke and Black Lives Matter, black-oriented network BET (Black Entertainment Television) aired a documentary entitled ‘Stay Woke’ about the movement in May 2016.
Like many words and phrases that capture a particular (political) zeitgeist, woke and stay woke have a meaning that is ever evolving and changing. Unfortunately for woke, its political meaning appears to have been removed in at least some contexts. Today, a search on Twitter reveals ‘stay woke’ being used in some tweets with its pro-black political meaning, but also being used in non-political, comical tweets like the following:
By the following decade, we have evidence of it being used in a more explicit political context. In a 1972 play entitled Garvey Lives!, author Barry Beckham writes. “I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon stay woke. And I’m gon help him wake up other black folk”.
These examples, among others, provide evidence that woke with its pro-black political meaning dates back over 50 years in American usage. There are few examples of woke being used with this meaning in public writings in the late 20th century, but woke seems to have made a comeback in recent years. In her 2008 track ‘Master Teacher’, R&B star Erykah Badu sings “I stay woke”, and helps to bring this meaning of woke back into the public consciousness. However, it seems that the true woke renaissance coincided with the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, following the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013. Indeed, building on the association between woke and Black Lives Matter, black-oriented network BET (Black Entertainment Television) aired a documentary entitled ‘Stay Woke’ about the movement in May 2016.
Like many words and phrases that capture a particular (political) zeitgeist, woke and stay woke have a meaning that is ever evolving and changing. Unfortunately for woke, its political meaning appears to have been removed in at least some contexts. Today, a search on Twitter reveals ‘stay woke’ being used in some tweets with its pro-black political meaning, but also being used in non-political, comical tweets like the following:
In the tweets above, it is clear that #StayWoke has a meaning related to being aware of some type of alleged conspiracy, but it has been stripped of its gravitas as well as its call for black folks and allies to remain aware of oppression. Like its lighter predecessors from 2015, on fleek and squad goals, woke has now lost some of its original meaning and ties to black communities. Woke featured prominently on MTV’s News’ list of words to use in 2016, and they define it simply as ‘being aware — specifically in reference to current events and cultural issues’.
In MTVs conceptualization, woke simply means being aware, without any connections to black oppression or consciousness that it had when it re-entered wider usage in 2013. In this way, woke has been racially sanitized for a mainstream audience. Woke has been removed from its ties to black communities as well as its reference to black consciousness and political movements. As a result, woke itself can no longer perform the function of promoting and indexing black consciousness and liberation. The appropriation of woke has lulled it into a complacent, apolitical slumber where, ironically, it simply means ‘awake’.
In MTVs conceptualization, woke simply means being aware, without any connections to black oppression or consciousness that it had when it re-entered wider usage in 2013. In this way, woke has been racially sanitized for a mainstream audience. Woke has been removed from its ties to black communities as well as its reference to black consciousness and political movements. As a result, woke itself can no longer perform the function of promoting and indexing black consciousness and liberation. The appropriation of woke has lulled it into a complacent, apolitical slumber where, ironically, it simply means ‘awake’.
Gaslight
I’ve actually been meaning to write about the verb gaslight for a couple of months because I kept seeing it on Twitter and could not figure out where it came from, and it turns out the story is interesting. Gas lighting is form of psychological manipulation where an abuser makes people doubt their sanity by denying that something that happened really happened. For example, a boyfriend might promise to pick up his girlfriend from work, not show up, and then swear that he never made the promise and that she’s the ditzy one. The gaslighter will do things like this over and over with such brazen confidence that the girlfriend really does start to wonder if it’s her. But why would this be called gas lighting?
It turns out it comes from a 1944 Ingrid Bergman movie called Gaslight, which was based on a popular play called Angel Street when it ran on Broadway, in which a manipulative husband who has murdered their wealthy upstairs neighbor causes the gas lamps in the house to dim while he repeatedly is searching for the missing woman’s jewels, and then he tries to convince his wife that it isn’t happening—that she isn’t seeing the lamps dim before her very eyes and that she is going insane.
- Grammar Girl Words of the Year 2016 Edition
It turns out it comes from a 1944 Ingrid Bergman movie called Gaslight, which was based on a popular play called Angel Street when it ran on Broadway, in which a manipulative husband who has murdered their wealthy upstairs neighbor causes the gas lamps in the house to dim while he repeatedly is searching for the missing woman’s jewels, and then he tries to convince his wife that it isn’t happening—that she isn’t seeing the lamps dim before her very eyes and that she is going insane.
- Grammar Girl Words of the Year 2016 Edition
Quick and dirty tip on NGCC
Do you feel like life is surreal and you're living in a world of post-truth?
You ain't woke yet because the Network of Global Corporate Control is gaslighting you.
Go back and click on the full transcript link and stay woke. - 3rd Dog
You ain't woke yet because the Network of Global Corporate Control is gaslighting you.
Go back and click on the full transcript link and stay woke. - 3rd Dog
Thank you for listening to another segment of "The Network of Global Corporate Control." We have discussed in today’s segment the “Reality" that we have won the tug of war with the Network of Global Corporate Control, that is, the Banking Cartel. We are now in control of our own destiny. Until next week, I am your host, Karen Hudes. |