Caro Flores on Nostr: Words can be appropriated for the better and their meaning can change over time. But ...

Words can be appropriated for the better and their meaning can change over time. But words can also be stolen. This happens when useful words get taken up by bad actors in ways that that distort their meaning, so that we can no longer use them to think and communicate. It’s happening with “efficiency”, “merit”, and many others. How does this happen and what can we do about it? Nico Orlandi and I wrote about it here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/when-words-are-stolen/ #politics #musk #philosophy #language