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The War on Language | The Aneesh Karve Series | Episode 6 (WiM281)
The "What is Money?" Show
Semantic Inflation Is a Nebulization of Terms
We want more reified terms terms that are again concrete to the reality. But what we're talking about here with semantic inflation is the opposite of that reification. It's more like a nebulization of terms maybe where all of a sudden violence can be something that's physical or there can be this weird spiritual violence over here or maybe you know words or violence over there. And so I don't know this is kind of the distance that soul is asking us to produce in our minds rather than saying that oh this is violence and then shutting down discourse entirely.
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