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The Language of Gods and You Don't
In the preface to Encyclopedologic, which I quoted from last night and just referenced, Hegel explains this. Certain things including truth have two names he's explaining. The quote is one in the language of gods and the other on the tongues of us men. And if it's about language when we get to this postmodern era especially in transforming the meanings of words, there is no objective thing to grab on to because they've dissolved. They create decentralized initiate societies. You can create cult initiate societies just by transforming the way people understand words and symbols that they interact with. Then force other people through social interactions or coerce others to follow those same meanings until they become hegemonic