Duct Tape Blues

Did you ever hear or say a word or a phrase over and over and over so that it looses all meaning. Take the word "terrorist". To me it now sounds like a bunch of disconnected sounds that is has lost meaning, and it sounds like "trayer est" ; a non-word. My brain is starting to loose several words by all of the repetion.I would like to blame personal history for some of this, like having tee many martoonies in college or maybe blame that flat spot on my head, where my brother dropped me as a child. Although both of the above mentioned incidents may be partially responsible. I really blame our nations media. Usually there are spot events like the OJ Simpson and such and they are on the airwaves for a while sometimes, but they eventually go away, and later on, they regain some semblance of meaning. This does not seem to be the case with the sets of words we are presently being hit with over and over again. I am afraid they will be with us for a long long time. Now here is a conundrum. How can words which are becoming meaningless to some, still strike panic in so many others. When any tragedy occurs some people immediately think about it being a terrorist action?" It kind of reminds me of the stories, where back in the 50's, during the 'Cold War" anyone who spoke against the government was a communist. And these so called communists struck fear into many people. One reason people feared communists was because they were told by our government, that they were godless and they had atomic bombs (Weapons of Mass Destruction). It gave J Edgar Hoover a lot of room to investigate anyone he wanted to. Many people were brought to trial and were ordered to turn other people in. It ruined many lives Sound like Deja vue doesen't it. By the way, no such communists were found guilty of anything, except of expressing non-government aproved thoughts and ideas.