I wonder whether Wittgenstein would be satisfied with how things have turned out. We now know that what he considered "useless language-games" are in fact the b

I wonder whether Wittgenstein would be satisfied with how things have turned out. We now know that what he considered "useless language-games" are in fact the building blocks of the universe, or as close as we're going to get to building blocks while still being human. We also know that every logic is either formal or trivially useless. Formalism ended up being the only path forward. It's fun to see part of the origins of what we'd now call constructive logic in the question of whether a bridge might fall down if built from double-negation and classical logic. The idea that the bridge proves its sturdiness by holding itself up under its own weight is exactly the same sort of constructive-deconstructive idea. I can't help but compare Wittgenstein to Confucius in their insistence on the meanings of words and their usage. Confucius wanted people to play fewer language-games and use simpler language because it was part of his legalist philosophy; by being direct and plain, a government could be more transparent and its people could find more harmony in their social interactions. But Wittgenstein was concerned with human ability to perceive truth, logic, and abstracta, and his desire for simpler language was so that people could see the world as it really is, with a simpler map for a more intuitive territory.