How to Think Like a Genius 62-Language
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/10/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The language use, it is basically — I think we had this discussion a long time ago about the terms “good” and “evil.” I’ll use them, but there’s a lot of baggage. They convey meaning, immediately, but what they mean now is not what they back then now and to more people now. They have this baggage that assumes a whole bunch of junk from pre-scientific times, when people didn’t know much about the world or thought that they did. A more proper term for prophet might be intellectual.
Rick Rosner: Well, that’s a loaded term too.
Jacobsen: Yes, it is, but less so. It is more concrete.
Rosner: The landscape of — instead of intellectual, somebody who thinks about stuff.
Jacobsen: That’d just be a philosopher.
Rosner: Yea. There are micro-publishing and all of social media make it so much easier to present your point of view to people to expose what you’re thinking to people that barriers to entry to casual philosophy or joke-making or observation-making have been reduced, but also there’s a flurry of every other kind of message making.
So, it’s a bigger arena and it is more confused.
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