I came across a YouTube channel called Innerstanding, by Sevan Bomar (real name James Evan Bomar III). He uses well-defined words, muddies their contextual meaning and even distorts discrete definitions. Why? Because someone that second-guesses words they're using is easily manipulated.
We use language (well, the vast majority anyways, there are exceptions) to formalize and structure our thoughts. You can only do this effectively and coherently if you use discrete contextual meanings in language. If you muddy the definitions of words (and I don't mean in the way that there are, like, several definitions for 'get') then your thoughts effectively become a scrambled mess. It's basically language schizophrenia.
Next up is replacing abstract concepts with colorful replacements meanings, and Sevan does this constantly with words like 'mind' & 'energy' to mean some nebulous concept disassociated apart from dictionary definitions.
Thirdly, he's straight up trying to sell you some bullshit narrative about how you can solve tangible problem with just thinking about it and I don't mean that in an introspection kind of way. And sell you literal products as well.
Fun to watch though, and to disseminate and pick apart his bullshit.
We use language (well, the vast majority anyways, there are exceptions) to formalize and structure our thoughts. You can only do this effectively and coherently if you use discrete contextual meanings in language. If you muddy the definitions of words (and I don't mean in the way that there are, like, several definitions for 'get') then your thoughts effectively become a scrambled mess. It's basically language schizophrenia.
Next up is replacing abstract concepts with colorful replacements meanings, and Sevan does this constantly with words like 'mind' & 'energy' to mean some nebulous concept disassociated apart from dictionary definitions.
Thirdly, he's straight up trying to sell you some bullshit narrative about how you can solve tangible problem with just thinking about it and I don't mean that in an introspection kind of way. And sell you literal products as well.
Fun to watch though, and to disseminate and pick apart his bullshit.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
