The language we use to describe reality matters, and it can certainly impact our perception of reality, but the language does not *make* reality, like the postmiderns claim (to varying degrees of emphasis).
The movie Arrival has a good example of the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. In the movie, aliens show up speaking a language that doesn't have a linear temporal structure. A human scientist learns the language, and finds she can move her awareness to any point in her life. It's a neat idea.
In reality, though, the world "out there" exists unto itself, and our perception does not change the underlying substance.
Likewise with Bitcoin. The maxis will insist that bad money poisons human nature, and that if we simply fix the money, we'll somehow fix people. The truth is, people will remain broken, whatever kind of money we have.
MichaelJ
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2024-04-16 01:51:06
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