In 2021 and 2022, I presented a disturbing trend about certain
words that are no longer applicable to a dictionary defined meaning.
What does that say about the influences that make for new
definitions of familiar words?
If I
cannot answer this question without inserting my personal opinion, then perhaps
the onset of this early 21st century can proceed, and soon, we will advance into a tranquil and
soothing mid-century when all the angst if the earlier times are settled and
prosperity in our nation reigns?
Yet questions beget questions.
If setting out a personal POV is my
only avenue to offer an answer, then I can say, politics has played into
changing definitions, but then if this is true, my sense of the permanency of words and meaning is
entirely shaken. And I can think as well, if
there are no guarantees about anything, words
& meanings are now variables that are subject to the powers in charge.
Thus, history is a variable that can change, too.
Depending on the
narrative and who examines the event, the new definition is defined by the most
powerful in government currently in charge.
And everyone knows that a so-called red wave didn't arrive in this
new year 2023.
