Post-literate: People now select phrases & words from an article to fit their preconceptions. “He says ‘Stalin’, he’s a Stalinist.” (He was attacking Stalin). Bias, yes, but also inability to read: illiterate. The word itself is evil, finding it is a conviction. Magical thinking.
This is connected to an obsession with pronouns, racial, sexual, and religious jargon. Roots in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, McKenna, Leary, Anton Wilson: belief that words make reality completely. There’s some truth there, but we do not live in a “linguistic construction”.
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The idea that “words make the world” is not so much “postmodern” (& “continental”) as American, being connected to Sapir-Whorf, Boasian anthropology, Watts, McKenna, Leary, Anton Wilson, Ram Dass, Crowley, Burroughs, LSD, and Korzybski.
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