online: 7 november 2018
modified: 8 november 2018
7 november 2018 rewriting the
language
We have the time and opportunity to rewrite the language
and to rectify the words.
This is what Confucius recommended:
when in doubt rectify the names or the words.
Rectify means putting things right, morally
and not only functionally.
In the way that you can be functionally right but do wrong things (I
came to this idea after seeing that weapons were so well designed
compared to cheap commercial products).
But functionality took over at the end of the twentieth century . . .
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