The New Tower of Babel

by Lee Duigon

August 17, 2023

CNN—didn’t that use to be a news network?—is going to teach us plebs how to use “neo-pronouns,” avoiding the utterance of such fighting words as “he” or “she”. We have to learn to say “ze” and “zyr” and anything else Our Betters have dreamed up lately.

The pro-choice mob demands we choose to obey. You have to give them credit for being generous with their delusions—they certainly don’t want to keep them to themselves.

CNN’s “lessons” will be provided by the Human Rights Campaign, “HRC” for short. Wait a minute—doesn’t that stand for “Hillary Rodham Clinton,” too? I find this darkly sinister, way too on-target to be a coincidence. But which is the head and which is the tail?

Now long ago, the Bible tells us, the whole human race spoke just one language, and consequently was able to take on highly ambitious projects. Their inflated sense of self-importance drove them to try to build a tower that would reach up into heaven and be as high as God’s own throne; and having achieved this, they would be as gods themselves.

God frustrated this plan by confounding man’s language. Suddenly instead of just one language, there were hundreds of them, mutually unintelligible. Forget about finishing the Tower: what we have here is a failure to communicate. Unable to understand each other, the now numerous linguistic tribes abandoned their project and dispersed themselves throughout the earth.

God’s action has long been called a punishment; but I see it as a decisive measure to prevent something worse from happening. Had we kept our universal language, who knows what further mischief our ruling sinners might have devised? But God knew, and nipped it in the bud. And even so, human wickedness so tainted all Creation that God drowned civilization in the Flood.

But now, millennia later, it’s our ruling sinners who are confounding the language. Our universities and teachers’ colleges are great for this. They are awash in brand-new words and terminologies that no one in his right mind can understand. Have you ever tried to talk to them? The pronouns alone are a bar to communication—never mind such whoppers as “intersectional,” “non-binary,” and “environmental justice.” Very few of us can get by, as Kamala Harris does, on a diet of word salad. And cackling.

Here the purpose of confounding the language is to snow us under. Making themselves incomprehensible to the plebs is supposed to make us think they’re “smart”—way smarter than us, at any rate. How can we see through their schemes if we cannot understand their language? We can’t even keep up with all the changes.

And we’re paying for it! That’s the most unkindest cut of all. A college education, which befuddles those who receive it, costs a fortune. Graduates are saddled with a mountain of debt—and what do they have to show for it? A degree in Multi-intersectional Gender Studies? Critical Race Theory—I almost typed “theology,” which would not have been far wrong—as applied to chemistry or calculus?

You could just scream.

This new Tower of Babel is certainly a punishment: we will be enslaved to stupidity.

And if you think that is something to be strived for, they’ve got you where they want you.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit: it’s all in English. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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