Skinless Backs and Pure Wind

Political language, verbal manipulations, give "an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

That is one phrase in a piece by Hunsinger that Chris TN put on Broken Glass today. It gave me much pause to consider the ways I have seen spin, propaganda, deception... aka "Political language" used to give the "appearance of solidity to pure wind."

Pure wind. It sounds a bit blissful perhaps? That's not the truth of the matter. I re-read the phrase and ponder it, as I simultaneously watch hurricane coverage (for the umpteenth time this season) and again see the horrendous damage that pure wind can do...yes....the deception of spin, political language is indeed a dangerous thing. Anderson Cooper said it well tonight: it can peel the skin right off your back............. yesss........... I do understand.

Last night I stumbled upon and watched a special called: The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, a story about a 36 year old "man" who allowed filmakers to follow him for the last months of his life. http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/B/boy_whose_skin_fell_off/

Johnny Kennedy had sufferred from a horrible genetic disease since birth, EB, where the skin doesn't stick to the body and continually peels off. A truly horrible condition. There was one particularly intense scene in the film where his mother is changing the bandages on his back -- a terrbily painful process that had to be repeated every week for decades.

The image of the skinless back is fresh in my mind.

The skinless back; the damage that deceptive language can do.