gonna be lit when "fake news must be stopped" evolves into "words are psychoactive" and the war on drugs enters its linguistic-memetic theater
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Replying to @chaosprime
But... words ARE psycho-active. You know what else is? Food, water, and air.
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Replying to @danlistensto
sure, it’d be much less powerful if it were incorrect
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Replying to @chaosprime
you ever read Embassytown? https://www.amazon.com/Embassytown-Novel-China-Mi%C3%A9ville/dp/0345524500 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
it's one of my all time favorites and it goes really deep on the psychoactive properties of language by way of introducing human-style language to a group of sapient aliens who have a language that, prior to human contact, is incapable of speaking anything but literal truth.
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Dan listens to the churning atmosphere Retweeted Sarah Maria Katharina #SaveLuna #FreeChelsea
effectively, their words DID have meaning, rather than just usage, until they met us anywayhttps://twitter.com/SarahMariaKath/status/1149293826282074113?s=20 …
Dan listens to the churning atmosphere added,
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
Bullshit. Imbued meaning is a childish idea.
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it’s a fantasy novel
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto
The problem I have is that people use this stuff as a real world argument.
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bizarrely, this particular work of fiction very much pushes your argument, but I always see people using it to make the opposite point.
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