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use language to disambiguate That's the ultimate issue here. Different groups of people want to disambiguate some terms and conflate others, and there is not e
by chongli 4y ago
use language to disambiguate
That's the ultimate issue here. Different groups of people want to disambiguate some terms and conflate others, and there is not enough overlap between these groups to reach a common ground. At its core is a struggle for power with the meanings of words representing territory to be won or lost.
Orwell wrote extensively on this topic and left us with some pretty stern warnings which we as a society continue to ignore. And while everyone fights over this stuff we are ruining the planet and risking catastrophic consequences both environmental and political.