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It amazes me how such intelligent people can be so stupid when it comes to the topic of meaning. The new terms over time will of course develop the same positiv
by arisbe__ 5y ago
It amazes me how such intelligent people can be so stupid when it comes to the topic of meaning. The new terms over time will of course develop the same positive/negative connotations because meaning doesn't have anything to do with the sign vehicle.
I call their strange way of thinking "the magic-spell theory of meaning". New age people have a similar notion of a "true name" like abracadabra.
- MattGaiser 5y agoDo they fail to understand or are they just unwilling to fight over it? Plenty of decisions that I view as stupid I acquiesce to avoid having to fight.
- version_five 5y agoI think this is most people's attitude. But the problem is that you wake up one day and find a new religion and power structure has been imposed on you. I don't think it's valuable fighting every little thing either, but I also don't want to live in a world where we cover in fear of professional agitators. If we want to ignore this stuff, it needs to be in the sense of "yeah I'm not doing that" as opposed to participating in their theatre to avoid conflict