Yeah, people are at different points down the rabbithole. As nostr:nprofile1qqsd7pkjrm98cxwgn5z5je9jm83stfp9a00rgspukrnev6589v3strcpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vfwde3x7tnpdenkzmnf9e3k7mg4yqp is saying, part of what nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqaktkhj was saying in the video too, people end up meaning very different things.

I don't really use the isms much anymore because they're just trigger words. Ideologies are just programs that keeps us fighting and puts a frame around our minds so we don't see the system for what it is.

Fiat is word magic, at its core. And words have become increasingly shallow and meaningless during the fiat age.

I've found that going back to old sources and clear thinking from before these spells were cast has helped me see things from the outside more. Words are thinking tools, and they have effectively been nerfed--they used to have much clearer, deeper meanings.

I think the schools have had big role in taking away the deeper meanings of words. Even civil war letters from regular farm boys in the 1800s are humbling to read now.

Take the word "literacy" itself. (Kind of an interesting example.)

It used to mean deeply knowing history and the source texts of our culture. The Bible, Aristotle, Homer, Seneca... Now it means just the basic ability to read and write.

Now everyone is "literate" but nobody knows what anything really means. That makes us useful but not dangerous to the system and more programmable.