language
Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in dea
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From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”
The more powerful communication technologies become, the more people will fight wars over words instead of territory. Language, when wielded at scale, is among man's most powerful weapons.
The fact the catchphrase is “tax the rich” and not “help the poor” is telling.
Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)twitter.com