Monday, March 11, 2013

new reality, new word

Inventing new words is one of the most rebellious things you can do. We all live under a set of prescribed social assumptions, which are embedded into our words. If you want to think outside your social conditioning, you will need a new word to do it.

Every word is a suitcase, into which we pack an idea, and then hand it to someone else. No suitcase: no handoff. Our society is changing, fast, and we need new words to describe it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/mar/11/why-we-need-invent-new-words