Spectrum this post was so excellent and thorough that a pithy reply seemed inadequate. I've also considered these issues at length, the degradation of language is not accidental. Decoupling words from persistent meaning is a deliberate effort to erode identity and reason and leave mankind and empty vessel that can be filled with any expedient beliefs or the desired ideology no matter how incoherent. Immediately before parsing your post I was reading Plato's Republic - it is jarring to go from the rigorous dialogues to the mind numbing contortions of modern progressive anti-linguistics. I look forward to reading more of your content. I observe this is an excellent use of Hive. May reason prevail.