Hasn't language always been fluid, adaptive and mostly manufactured to be lawyered and divisive?...
Sophisticated grunting?
The word Sofisticated, for example, has undergone some radical changes... If we were to start speaking honestly, shouldn't we perhaps find the truth in the history of each word first-
E.g.-
Sophisticated:
early 15c., sophisticacioun, "use of sophistry; fallacious argument intended to mislead; disingenuous alteration; an adulterated or adulterating substance," from Medieval Latin sophisticationem (nominative sophisticatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of sophisticare "adulterate, cheat quibble," from Latin sophisticus "of sophists," from Greek sophistikos "of or pertaining to a sophist," from sophistēs "a wise man, master, teacher" (see sophist). Greek sophistēs came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and at Athens, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt.
The meaning "worldly wisdom, refinement, discrimination" in English is attested by 1850. Related: Sophisticative; sophisticator.
"When an army feeds its horses with grain and kills it's cattle for food, and when the men do not hang their cooking pots over the campfires, showing that they will not return to their tents, you may know that they are determined to fight to the death."
This is the crux of the matter imho: "instinctual need for self-preservation."
Put simply, it no longer exists for the vast majority, dare I say, 98% of Australians (if we are to believe the numbers).
Govern me harder, daddy.
Hasn't language always been fluid, adaptive and mostly manufactured to be lawyered and divisive?...
Sophisticated grunting?
The word Sofisticated, for example, has undergone some radical changes... If we were to start speaking honestly, shouldn't we perhaps find the truth in the history of each word first-
E.g.-
Sophisticated:
early 15c., sophisticacioun, "use of sophistry; fallacious argument intended to mislead; disingenuous alteration; an adulterated or adulterating substance," from Medieval Latin sophisticationem (nominative sophisticatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of sophisticare "adulterate, cheat quibble," from Latin sophisticus "of sophists," from Greek sophistikos "of or pertaining to a sophist," from sophistēs "a wise man, master, teacher" (see sophist). Greek sophistēs came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and at Athens, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt.
The meaning "worldly wisdom, refinement, discrimination" in English is attested by 1850. Related: Sophisticative; sophisticator.
"When an army feeds its horses with grain and kills it's cattle for food, and when the men do not hang their cooking pots over the campfires, showing that they will not return to their tents, you may know that they are determined to fight to the death."
Sun Tzu, Art of War