Abstract

The Stupidity of Communications focuses exclusively on human communication and the roles that both words and the media play in distorting our perceptions of reality. Learning, unlearning and relearning are examined in the context of defining verbalizations which determine how we misperceive our natural and cultural environments. Language gives human communication its distinctive flair by both inhibiting and subverting awareness. The article stresses words as the defining essence of human cultural life and emphasizes the role they play in fixing our attitudes, directing the process of data selection and shaping our misinterpretations of information. It is through words that “Exploitation becomes Development; Indoctrination is Education and Destruction is Liberation".