I swear, it's fascinating. I mean, I'm using a second language I have never lived with, and I get that my posts sound weird and grammatically off at times but in the end, English is alien to me.
But these native English speaking people write-talk and esp. use certain words as if they have learned them from a verbal communication only. Exactly the same with the ones here. I experience this in two different languages. It's like we're back in sixteenth-seventeenth centuries. Not just him. But as he is the closest example now, look at the way he is using the word 'deceit'.
"Deceit of left." It's like somebody has been reading from a 'chapbook' or an anonymous dialogue written down to a few pages of parchment regularly -as it was the fashion then- and they're talking through this with some bits and pieces. (You know those? Sold by peddlers? Little booklets? The same illustrations were recycled and often they had no relation to the text, just got put there. short Stories, parables... Often the same male portrait became everyone...villains, heroes...lol) But in this modern one it is like a floating fairy tale telling... 'There was this dark king who lived in the castle right down the blue mountains and he wanted to rule all the lands by magic and deceit. The people of the river saw his lies and ask the red king to stand against the dark king. The red king told the villagers to burn all the hay and wait for him at the dawn someday after the harvest so he will save them and make things great again.'
I was going to say it is like Menocchio came to life, he is sitting by the fire and reading to the illiterate farmers and these people are like those farmers, getting bits and pieces from his readings about some 'things' they have never heard before and then try to convey them to others...but obviously that's a bad analogy because Menocchio was a hero of his time,lol. But the primitive literal mindedness of that time is here somehow. I mean the words are used in a way that makes you feel like it is coming from somewhere several hundred years ago, from a time they didn't exist,lol.
You guys know better than me about how Protestants and Catholics have fought and argued about the allegorical and literal meanings of 'the bread is my flesh, wine is my blood' ritual. Well, they've both read this -pen holders of course- ritual with different kinds of literal mindedness and in a time allegory was condemned and people started to question bible harshly -not serving to realism yet as we know, no- both sides have debated that how the allegorical and/or literal traits become the faith expressed in reality as in 'god's truth'.
I swear, what's happening right now very much resembles to that. At some point, in an extreme dysutopian scenario, these people will claim the American Civil War has never happened and was made up by the Dark King and his men. Exactly like when people have done with wars, historical figures; the existance of Ancient Rome, few hundred years ago. LOLOL
Somebody has to write something solid about this. This being... the literal mindedness of the 21st century.
