Common wisdom might say, the truth is the the truth, facts are facts, and storytelling is storytelling. Yet, when we look again, we see something that we didn’t before, glimmers of new ideas spring from stone, fiction shifts to fact and facts shift to fiction. So much of who we are and how we see the world is on how we look at things. Yet, curiosity, empathy, ambition and countless other emotions drive us through the day, changing the perspective with which we view the world.
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Names are an indispensable part of our knowledge. Everything has a name. Branded! Until popularity fades… Paul Krugman’s editorial, “What’s in a Name? The Musk/Twitter Edition,” in the New York Times explores brand names in the marketplace. He refers to Elon Musk changing the name of “Twitter” to “X,” which Krugman considers pointless (as do I). But the article is timely in the sense that we are in an era of changing names for myriads of subjects to such an extent it’s very difficult to know what’s what! Does “X” for “Twitter” suggest a porn site? Is “fake news” a lie or exaggeration or reference to information from a specific organization for political reasons? Generally speaking When I hear “tree” or “salt” or “rock” or “beach” I know what is meant, and an image of it appears in my mind. I also understand that these are generic names, so in addition to a specific item, the name represents a class of subjects. There are many species of trees, while table salt is the most common, there are a lot of other inorganic salts. Rocks come in all sizes and many compositions, and there are diverse beaches [...]
