A-class critique of the grounding of value. I will add that there seems to be a substantial correlation between people who are made uncomfortable by the realit

A-class critique of the grounding of value. I will add that there seems to be a substantial correlation between people who are made uncomfortable by the reality of socially-constructed value, and the social construction of many other "foundational" things, such as "truth" and its relationship to natural language, which flows naturally into self-delusional "originalism" when it comes to interpreting say the Constitution. Or for that matter the Bible. which in turn are deeply correlated with autocratic-leaning and socially-conservative politics which favor rigid hierarchies and privilege authority and respect for it, over other values (such as equity, compassion, etc.) I find it remarkable how many people are made uncomfortable even in otherwise well -educated circles by the premise that in natural language meaning is negotiated and collaborative and requires not absolutes of the universe but rather agents who maintain representations and models of one another's states, beliefs, intentions, etc., against which every utterance is measured and its meaning triangulated. I guess if you got a degree in EECS rather than say CogSci it's possible to never encounter even anemic instrumental models of this in a pragmatic linguistics class... :/