M. Grégoire
"[S]pectators are left to simply marvel at the awesomely protean quality of human language, which will always include terms like neoliberal whose definition will change so much over time that it will be difficult to pinpoint what single concept they refer to at all."
When People Were Proud to Call Themselves ‘Neoliberal’ - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/history-of-neoliberal-meaning/528276/
M. Grégoire
The intellectual history is intriguing, but overall this sort of thing lowers my confidence in the possibility of meaningful communication. How can we build anything complicated together when the tools are squirming and changing in our hands?
Maybe the only language of truth is mathematics.
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