(on Young's "private language")

[petro]

>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.

	To the American media, advertising, sales, and rating *ARE* 
social justice.
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