This jargon politicians throw around so carelessly, one might wonder if they believe anyone believes anything they say. No one should trust them; most only pretend to represent the people. They like to control, but politicians are not in control of anything but their own fantasies of power. People have to be fooled into making it all possible, putting political reality together. Political reality is a joke on the people, what media makers want to call reality.

Some throw up their hands and claim nothing is real, so the lesser of two evils will have to suffice. Distinguishing reality from fiction is an art, demanding skills in separating honesty from acting. Acting may be sincere, but only honesty requires truthfulness, trustworthiness, or a sense of honor. Slogans are not on a level with principles; public relations is spin doctoring, not reporting. Politicians claim responsibility for fixing problems they created, but duck responsibility for the new problems they create. This may be by design or neglect; regardless, the people suffer for it.

One problem ducked endlessly are corporations and science running wild, devouring competition and ravaging what is left of natural beauty. People could understand the value of wilderness by realizing oxygen and weather depend on forests, and most lumber products have reasonable substitutes from other plants. The same is true of petroleum products.

Nuclear power is another cruel joke, one of the worst messes science has explored. After those two bombs, primitive by modern standards, demolished a good chunk of large Japanese cities, scientists could have figured out fission was not worth the trouble. Money got involved, along with the arms race, so we are stuck with nuclear power and bombs that could never be useful, except possibly to terrorists, without causing the war to end most life, at least higher mammals. The latest idea is recycling nuclear wastes as scrap metal, so it could get into any metallic product. Radioactive substances have been used for decades in ordinary smoke detectors, despite the fine substitute using photocells.

Psychology has insidious jargon, categorizing odd patterns of behavior as disease syndromes and offering escape drugs as treatments. Women and children are the primary targets. While children have to learn many lessons, that does not mean there is one right way they should behave. Psychology once defended male supremacy from a scientific standpoint, as if it were best for everyone. Fostering stereotypical behavior can only benefit those already in power. If women are not submissive, that does not discourage them from sex or motherhood. The right is full of fantastic fictions about feminism.

Controversial issues get distorted by jargon by twisting language around certain code words, such as pro-life. Calling taking control of procreation from women pro-life seems to make good public relations, like calling abortion killing babies. That is an incitement to violence any preacher raving curses on abortion ought to think about. Pregnancy is not a valid excuse for government meddling. Those seeking to enforce their interpretation of divine will are a public menace, especially since some maniacs showed their blindness can drive them to murder.

Jargon might be silly if it were not crafted to deceive the public. Jargon hides the inability to explain the point in plain language. People are supposed to be led around by the nose with words they are not expected to comprehend. This gives experts the credibility to carry on their activities with little or no oversight, since no one outside the circle of self-proclaimed experts is given any credence to understand the subject. That policy has been disastrous everywhere it is tried. The curious thing is why anyone expects different, why experts have influence after so many clear errors of judgment. It is not they will get it better next time, but that they are succeeding in serving their superiors, as well as enhancing their position in the expert hierarchy.

If someone cannot explain their points in plain language, it means they do not understand their own point of view, or have reason to hide. One strange term is artificial intelligence. Machines are limited to logic and near random choices. Those who profess computers can have intelligence must think brains are akin to machines. People designed these machines and software. They are imperfect, not worthy of such faith, but good servants to the point where tasks can be dissected into simple routines. Beyond that, software has to rely on educated guesswork. Lacking intuition, that is little better than chance. Machines can try out lots of virtual scenarios quickly, but that can never approach the capacity of live human intelligence, except in certain games and war. There is nothing magical about a computer. It does exactly what is ordered, no more, no less. Problems crop up with overlooked things, as Y2K. Problems also crop up with unexpected things, as malfunctions of hardware, power, operating systems, communication links, as well as programs.

Technology can make wonderful things possible, but is used for the worst reasons more often than could be blamed on coincidence. Jargon helps convince those entrusted to oversee technology that the experts must know lots of things to justify their recommendations. That may be true, but those things are not likely in the public interest. Technology has also created lots of new toys for spies, but the intelligence organizations continue to be an embarrassment, not just for their practices and policies, but lack of information they should have known. Jargon helps national security make the request for more money to fix problems with a straight face. If it was only a movie, it might be funny, but this is all a travesty, a mockery of democracy, with tragic consequences for people and other life.