Does anyone else get annoyed when (often philosophical) words are misused in common speach? Examples: Some anti-consumerist or anti-capitalists say “Materialism is bad,” which is annoying as a dialectical materialist. Materialism is the philosophy of putting matter over mind when studying the world, not liking fancy things. People frequently complain about “cynicism” meaning self-interest, cold-heartedness, or unreasonable skepticism. In reality it’s an ancient philosophy of living naturally and virtuously, rejecting social norms and ideals. I legit heard someone saying Stoicism means seriousness as in taking a sport seriously. It’s a philosophy of living virtuously and avoiding unnecessary psychological pain. These days people only know “op/ps” as opposition not operatives or operations. Finally, I know someone who thinks “dialectics” pretty much just means talking.
(not sure if this is the right comm, but it’s a rant)
Yeah, I can’t exactly find the exact terms to say this, but I agree (though my mind is quite foggy)…
Honestly, as much as I like the simplification of vocabulary for educational purposes, sometimes, it feels as though the capitalists and liberals uses this to their advantage to oversimplify and obfuscate certain terms that quite eloquently explain one thing or another, and thus recuperate them into their society via their ownership and thus influence and stranglehold over the media landscape superstructure…
It’s funny that it’s like this, considering those same liberals would probably cry their asses over “Newspeak” when Orwell just simply projected on socialist nations what he knew about the British state apparatus’ public media reports…