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Dippy@beehaw.org 21 hours agoWhy is theory so dense??? I cant even comprehend the Wikipedia summary of this lmao (im not asking for a rephrase).
Sometimes we use super technical precise language to say something that we later realize is fairly simple. It might be obvious in retrospect but take us literally thousands of years to figure out. I have so many examples of that phenomenon.
Anyway, other times we just need new words for all sorts of new concepts. Even the smartest humans are stupid by default and ordinary language is outstripped by our intellectual ambitions.
Same reason any philosophy gets up its own ass when it goes on for long enough.
New concepts require new words. New concepts relate to each other in interesting ways. These also have names.
Alternatively, if I ever wanted to assert something more complicated than the weather I’d need to re-build the entire conceptual framework from scratch using small words and pictures.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
If you’re from the US, much of the vocabulary is unfamiliar because education on these concepts is intentionally avoided in public schools. I can’t imagine why…
prettybunnys@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Which words are those?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
“Communism”
“Socialism”
“Anarchism”
prettybunnys@piefed.social 6 hours ago
I learned all of those from my small town USA education.
Weird.