(on Young's "private language")

[Aimee Farr]

As so many have pointed out, privately.

I was referring to a time before the media was uhm...expatriciated.

Anybody care to cast a lot for their picks of Net/new media written in the
spirit of gentil intellection?

~Aimee

> Aimee Farr wrote:
>
> > Anonymous, (a fellow Sophist? FN1), points out that mass media
> is written
> > for the masses.
> >
> > A larger point is that THOUGHT PRESUPPOSES LANGUAGE. By limiting your
> > language to the lowest common denominator, your limit the
> 'lodestar' of the
> > sign vehicles. American media speaks in the lowest common
> denominator in the
> > interest of social justice and convenience. Some feel it has
> worked an equal
> > injustice by hobbling our ability to THINK. "The limits of my
> language are
> > the limits of my mind." (Wittgenstein)
>
>
> Not in the interests of social justice. In the interests of advertising,
> sales, and ratings.
>
> Ken