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Next up True Negativity or Positive Toxicity. Take your pick. “Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic
by op03 6y ago
Next up True Negativity or Positive Toxicity. Take your pick.
“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability and constants, about similarities and normal and kinds, about magical transformations, quick cures, simple problems, and final solutions. Yet the world we try to symbolize
with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths,
interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem.” - Wendell Johnson
- jdsalaro 6y ago"Makes broad, meaningless and demeaning generalizations about language and its creators by alluding to their inability to capture the world's complex nature while doing that very same thing by means of rigid categorizations and stark remarks all in the interest of sounding edgy" - Wendell Johnson Nice, albeit terribly useless, soundbite.
- rimiform 6y agoJohnson sounds like he just finished reading Deleuze and Guattari.
- vagrantJin 6y agoThe word toxic and the derived toxicity are starting to grate. > And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem Hegel and his merry-band of psuedo-intellectuals like this clown (Johnson) are the reason philosophy isn't taken seriously as it used to.