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craazyman's avatar

I have a lot of sympathy for Olivia Katbi-Smith's economic grievances and I oppose censorship in all its forms. But I find it sad to see language itself dumbed-down into "right" versus "left", "socialist" versus "capitalist", Proud Boys/Antifa etc. etc. boxes and all the reductive stupidity that comes with them.

Language is a tool. It needs to be clear, precise, illuminating, inspiring, meaningful and communicative. These labels don't do that. They distort and falsify, they obscure the legitimate human grievances these systems of reality paradoxically all share. Nearly every person wants a good life, parties, friends, prosperity, a good job, etc. How to get there is the debate of the ages.

Mathematics needed the idea of zero, of the differential (dx) and the idea of the square root of negative 1 to reach it's current expressive meaning. Those three ideas -- along with the Pythagorean theorem -- kicked doors of perception wide open and put a floodlight on nature's secrets.

There won't be similar progress in political economy unless words have more clarity. Censorship obstructs the evolution of language and the nearly alchemical process by which words evolve and gain meaning through human creativity and contemplation.

That's a bad thing to obstruct -- for all the supposed temporary gains it's two steps forward and three steps back.

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Tedder130's avatar

Perhaps ritual war in the long-ago was merely a means of population control. I understand that the best method of population reduction is female empowerment; if so, perhaps we can rid ourselves of atavistic warfare.

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