I Want to Teach You Something

Vredenhebtheid

I want to teach you something, something which you already know. Something you just need confirmation to comprehend. Like one of those aha moments when you finally snap a concept or understand the steps to get to a solution.

I want to teach you the word "vredenhebtheid". Let it sink in and repeat it a few times.

Vre-den-hebt-heid

Vre...
den...
hebt...
heid...

If you look up the word in a Google search you will find nothing on it. I have done the search for you in the image below or you can follow the link if you don't trust my searching skills.

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Google does give a different word that might be close to this word but it is not Vredenhebtheid and the reason is simple. It's because Vredenhebtheid is a word I have made up. Its origin is from an Afrikaans background and the word consists of two Afrikaans words, vrede and beheptheid, which can be translated to English as peace and preoccupation. A direct translation to English can be peacepreoccupation which is also not a word but gives a better description of what Vredenhebtheid means.

At this point, you are probably asking yourself what in the hell did I just read and why!? But bear with me, this is where the interesting part starts.

Before this article, you never knew or thought of the word Vredenhebtheid and now you do. You know this word because you have made the time to read this article, and ingrained in your mind from this point forward is the word Vredenheptheid. Yes, in a day or two you might forget ever reading this article and the word will fade from memory and the time it takes to forget it will depend on your ability to remember things but here and now you know the word.

From here I can elicit different emotions building on the word I have taught you but I will only give two examples.

The first is an attempt at joy.

Do you know how lucky you are to know this word and did you even consider that you and I are probably the only two people on this planet that know and think of the word? That makes us unique and if we keep on going like this we can speak our own language (okay, a new language might be pushing it but you get the point).

The second emotion is anger and this is the one I want you to focus on because other people use this method to teach you what reality they want you to focus on.

I have tricked you because the word that you have just been taught is my word. From this point forward I own a piece of your mind. That slither that is used to store the word is my property. Yes, it's your body but its function is to remember and what you remember is my creation! This should make you angry! You trusted me enough to spend time reading or paying attention to my works and I used your trust to steal a part of your reality (now remember this feeling!).

Where Is This Used

Every time you watch TV or read the newspaper or listen to the radio this happens to you. Your reality is being bent to the will of the people who own these platforms and today the influence far outstretch what we experienced in the past. We are bombarded with ads on social media that lead to similar scenarios but magnified by a degree so high it is difficult to put a number to it. These ads home in on our interests and teach you an entirely new reality.

Be careful what you spend your time on, and next time you have found out that a source lied to you, never pay attention to their work again.