More than a post-truth era, we’re in a post-language era. “Truth” remains as terminally compromised as it has always been. Only the forces undermining it have shifted
What is new though is a culture of ugly, joyless abuse of language, subverting and devaluing all fun uses of it
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It's not really new; John Locke complained about this too: "In this kind the first and most palpable abuse is, the using of words without clear and distinct ideas; or, which is worse, signs without anything signified."
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