Meanings Are Transient (among other things) – Drop in the Ocean – Transient

Meanings Are Transient (among other things)

I thought it odd that in searching the word transient on duckduckgo, it isn’t identified as a noun in some of the results returned. It seems to be identified solely as an adjective in many. But aren’t we all transients, (nouns), each on a constant journey we like to think of as “our lives?”

A check through all 19 pages of pixabay for pictures related to “transient,” returned exactly one in which an actual transient-looking person is shown... in front of a cemetery. Otherwise, there are only pictures of buildings and other things going through obvious states of change. I think this says a lot about the removal of a word’s meaning, i.e., a homeless person, and classification, i.e., a noun.

Granted, to some, life’s journey may not be that exciting and the scenery may hardly ever change, but if we actually get up, go outside and do things, we can gather some points of interest along life’s journey that will resonate, and on which we can reflect perhaps, during our moments of solitude.

I was officially labeled a transient (noun) several years ago as I traveled the Far East. It wasn’t a trip I’d planned, but my being there had always been a definite possibility. I remember that, at the time, I thought being a transient gave me a freedom that those of my kind who were there permanently didn’t have. I didn’t have anyone over me that I had to answer to, for one thing. I also didn’t have anything to do.

I just needed to putz around for however long it took for them to get me on a plane to go to where I was supposed to be; where I wouldn’t be a transient anymore. I was an official transient in one place for a week before going to another place where I was an official transient for a couple of days.

Of course, one can find that while being an officially declared transient, one comes face to face with the reality that there are no McDonalds here. There are no milkshakes. No fries. Not even a ham sandwich. With transiency comes surprises; some good, some bad.

For some reason, those who folks used to call “bums” and “hoboes” at one time, for the past few decades or so began being referred to as transients; except now when we use big tech to search online for examples. Obviously, they are not only intending to ditch one of transient’s meanings, they also aim at removing it from our minds (and conversations) when they remove logical and purposeful forms (nouns) and meanings (people) from words.

These days, when we discover something odd with definitions of things disappearing overnight, we always have to wonder if it’s another case of big tech attempting to mold us into mindless zombies as they systematically redefine literally everything. We could define these attempts as representing the transient nature of the power and desires that are behind big tech’s push for total control over us through manipulation.

Of course, as long as they keep moving the goalposts, and we keep mindlessly complying without as much as a whimper, things like definitions and classifications of things will continue to change, as they train us to reliably bring out and provide them with our transient nature of fluid naiveté.

They’ve invaded our lives to the extent now, that they feel confident we are hopelessly hooked on the big tech magnets, like Apple, Microsoft, YouTube (Google), Gmail (Google), Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (Facebook) WhatsApp (Facebook) etc., which emboldens them to a point where they actually believe they should be running the world. Talk about hubris!

And who is directing it all? Why China, of course. And why? Greed, as far as the treasonous actors in the west are concerned, handing power over to China. To the big tech firms aiding our enemies, like China, money and power together represents the ultimate greatest achievement of human life ever. So much so to big tech, that giving up the freedom and liberty of billions of people to gain more of it is justified.

For China, it’s the proliferation of Chinese Communism to all corners of the world – that has always been their ultimate goal. It’s disturbing that we have so many in the west, even in our federal government, aiding and abetting them in seeking their goal. Big tech carries their water.

If we know that someone has tried to break into our home, we’d do everything we could think of to prevent them from doing so. Google, along with the rest of big tech, has invaded our homes repeatedly, and when they are found out, they “apologize” and say it was a mistake. I don’t know about you, but they’ve done that kind of thing enough to where I’ve concluded they are outright lying.

Still, we just keep on inviting them in, showing no concern over just why the hell they get caught so often, doing things that are questionable at best and criminal, or even treasonous (censorship), at the worst. Can’t you just see their confidence growing at our inability to recognize and defend against their attacks on our privacy?

So, starting sometime in the near past, big tech decided that our habit of defining “transient” as a person (noun) who is in a location where they do not have a permanent place to call home, is out, and in the future it is going to ONLY be an adjective to describe something that’s changing, like the transient color of the sky during sunset.

Someday, we’ll probably read something that explains how we benefitted from big tech’s transient approach to relieving us of all those confusing and unnecessary decisions and “rights” we used to have to deal with, and how much better it is having our big tech guardians making all of our decisions and looking out for us.

Maybe for remaining a loyal big tech user/member no matter what they do, through thick and thin, you will get some sort of award or advancement for your loyalty during their darkest times. It’s something to think about, I guess.

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Sources for images used in this post:

Transient?: Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay
Hats: Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay
Panda: Image by Cimberley from Pixabay

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