Yeah, methinks the joke slipped past… I know what anarchists tend to think anarchism means… what’s funny to me is that “words have meanings” — those s’s are significant there — implies either an appeal to an unspecified authority that an anarchist should be skeptical of, claim to being such an authority that any other anarchist should also be skeptical of, or deference to some vague majoritarian tyranny that any anarchist should reject out of hand.
Libertarianism of any stripe has this same bootstrap problem: if I’m not free to redefine words, then I’m not free.
Libertarianism of any stripe has this same bootstrap problem: if I’m not free to redefine words, then I’m not free.
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