Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage

Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by josephlord on Sunday May 18, 2014 @01:19PM (#7763603)

Language affects perception, perception affects reality.

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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by macspoofing on Sunday May 18, 2014 @04:17PM (#7764248)

Are you sure it's not perception -> language, or perception <-> language.

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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by josephlord on Sunday May 18, 2014 @05:48PM (#7764557)

My statement doesn't preclude the reverse relationship. Each relationship is almost certainly bi-directional.

Altering the language is a powerful technique to shift views and change the debate. Totalitarian regimes have used it extensively (and Orwell parodied/warned about in 1984) but it is used in democracies too, see the battle over the language for abortion (life/choice), the US redefinition of liberal and I'm sure many other things too.

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Re:Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage by TeMPOraL on Sunday May 18, 2014 @05:04PM (#7764419)

It can (and I thinkt it is) both; you get a feedback loop, and such tend to steer the whole system in a particular direction.

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