They are nothing more then claims to action. They aren’t set in stone, and they certainly aren’t divine!
I wrote that a time ago. IDK how much of it I still agree with but it’s likely that most of it I would still agree with.
I’ve become distraught with the practice of going back and re-defining terms. I think its best to avoid it, though I am begining to realize that our culture have adopted definitions of terms that really doesn’t do anyone party any good. There are terms understoood on the left, defined differently on the right, but in all cases the terms helps no one. The terms are constructed and used for the soul purpose of perpetuating disputes between ideologies. The practice effectively is designed to segment people apart. It creates a sort of language barrier.
Most of the times the terms are re-defined in a defamatory way to disgrace an opposing ideology. The underlying or original meanings is lost. This seems most prevelent in the communist/syndicalist communities IMHO. As a result it seems necessary from time to time to really hash out the meanings of certain terms. To come to concensus of understanding between all parties. Not to define to rights(or any word) as a bias term, with an underlying agenda attached to it, but instead to formulate a neutral understanding of the word. One that would apply to nearly all parties that employ the word. One that would help all parties reach a concensus or agreed truth.
Let me provide an example.
Define: Capitalism -A political philosophy designed to pillage proletariat class.
I hate to be the one to do it because I feel it’s somewhat aarogant. English is one of my greatest shortcomings. I can’t even write gramatically correct sentences so who am I to explore the meaning of words and then correctly communicate those meanings? Still it would be nice if more people would take the initiative to do so, so that I wouldn’t feel compelled to!
I feel like this is one of the many ways we could resolve the issue of talking past people. More importantly in the example that Esuric provided, a few cleverly placed words have a very foul impact on our culture. It would be nice if that were not the case!
Thoughts?