Why Do Analysts Keep Talking Nonsense About Chinese Words?
The success of those labels in marginalizing and condemning the opponent fortified the communist conviction that you could change reality by changing words.
Roger Scruton • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Toynbee expounds the principle that times of trouble or rapid change produce militarism, and it is militarism that produces empire and expansion.
Marshall McLuhan • Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Understanding Media_ the Extensions of Man_ Critical Edition-Gingko Press
On a ainsi vu se multiplier dans la langue des communicants les « chocs » : de savoir, de sécurité, de simplification, d’innovation et d’à peu près n’importe quoi. On a aussi vu, de plus en plus souvent, des termes militaires être importés dans le discours ordinaire de la politique. C’est bien sûr l’évocation de la « guerre », fût-ce contre un viru
... See moreMichaël Foessel • Une étrange victoire: L'extrême droite contre la politique (French Edition)
The difficulty arises from America’s expressed desire to make China more democratic. China resents and resists this as an interference in its domestic matters. Outside powers cannot re-fashion China into their own image. Let us not forget that even China’s conquerors like the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries, and the Manchus in the 17th to 19
... See moreKuan Yew Lee • The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
Languages are living things. They age and change and grow and shrink. Sometimes we use a word incorrectly on a personal level for years (see me and immergance vs. emergance , gah) and sometimes a whole bunch of people begin “misusing” a word with such frequency that the word acquires that new, misused meaning. See: literally , which was “mis”-used ... See more