Saw a post asking about whether or not Hate was useful.

We have this idea that words mean things. But they don’t. What actually happens is that »people use words to mean things».

In other words: meaning is the result of context + intent + interpretation… not words.

I’m relatively opposed to the »idea of Hate. But I occasionally experience it when an egregious enough violation is visited upon me, someone I love, or even someone or some being I witness being abused. And I suspect that this is important. In some cases, it may be absolutely crucial.

So, if I add context, the question »then becomes meaningful… to me.

Is Hate helpful? The question by itself is incoherent because a meaningful answer cannot be abstracted from an actual situation, and this is one of the most lethal features of our relationships with English… there is this ghostly implication, in the background, that we should, quite naturally, overlook this … because, in the beginning, we were trained to — and to believe, that words ‘possess meanings’.

Or even that I ‘possess a mind’…

…ideas so nonsensical that, if one takes them as reliable… the possibility of intelligence itself practically disappears into that black hole of nonsense… usually forever.