il faut se méfier des mots
we must distrust words (in English)
…says the blackboard presumably photographed in France.
Yet words are my favourite simplification hack!
Therefore, it won’t be a surprise to you that if I discover anything as stupid as “we must distrust words”, I find it difficult to imagine what’s going on in the person who wrote those words. I’m grateful I’m not him or her.
To believe that words can be distrusted implies the word-user that wrote those words believes that words have the organs required.
If you agree that words have organs, you’re likely to believe any word on any wall, in any book, on the news, or on the internet/social media, in short any word at all.
- “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” – Charles Bukowski
- “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
You don’t have to be a writer or Nobel Prize winning physicist to see that words don’t possess organs, that the ones with the organs to trust or distrust anything, including words and themselves, are the word-users — you and me. Talking of which, I’m the first to agree that…
- “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
- “What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
When you pay the price to understand words, in lieu of stupidly distrusting them, they will no longer be only my favourite simplification hack, they will become your favourite simplification hack, too.
Are you ready to pay the price?
Alternatively, if you think education is expensive, the price for ignorance is even more expensive. On that I give you my word.
Did I mention that simple and simplification are words?
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