{"id":48220,"date":"2023-06-08T17:56:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=48220"},"modified":"2023-06-09T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T13:54:30","slug":"nowadays-one-cant-say-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/nowadays-one-cant-say-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNowadays One Can&#8217;t Say Anything!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Or: What do I actually want to say?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Correctly gendered text, inclusive language, racism, feminism \u2014 it\u2019s not often that emotions run so high, and become so stuck. Language affects us \u2014 it moves our thinking, our innermost being, and our freedom.\u00a0It\u00a0reveals who we are. It shows, explicitly or implicitly, what we think, who we think about, and what beliefs frame our thinking. Language is our common identity, anchored in the individual. These days, it\u2019s no longer clear what the common denominator behind language is. Despite the persistence and power of habit, the cultural self-understanding in the Western world has cracks in it. Not only are spiritual thresholds being crossed, but earthly boundaries have also become blurrier. Economic interests have bound our destinies and put us at each other&#8217;s mercy. Capitalism and mechanization have carved corridors through what used to be communities: for people, collective undertakings, and information. Where capital and technology are strong, linguistic-cultural mixing is high, and the borders of nations seem increasingly artificial. If the language debate feels like a battle of beliefs, it is because language is something to hold onto in a blurred world. From this vantage point, the rage shown when questioning the boundaries of what, or rather who, language encompasses, is illuminated. We don&#8217;t want to stutter, because those who stutter come across as insecure and perhaps incompetent. However, in all the outrage, the real threshold at which we stand is usually overlooked. The question for all of us is not about guilt or the function of language.\u00a0It\u2019s not about technical linguistic solutions, but rather about empathic healing. I shouldn\u2019t need to ask myself, \u201cWhat am I allowed to say?\u201d I should want to ask myself rather, \u201cHow I can understand you?\u201d There is a seed in that thought. Let&#8217;s stutter our way free!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Eliza Rozeboom<br><strong>Photo<\/strong> Jacek Dylag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or: What do I actually want to say? Correctly gendered text, inclusive language, racism, feminism \u2014 it\u2019s not often that emotions run so high, and become so stuck. Language affects us \u2014 it moves our thinking, our innermost being, and our freedom.\u00a0It\u00a0reveals who we are. It shows, explicitly or implicitly, what we think, who we think about, and what beliefs frame our thinking. Language is our common identity, anchored in the individual. These days, it\u2019s no longer clear what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9335,"featured_media":47832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,2515,8815],"tags":[11337,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-48220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-nachricht","category-world-situation","tag-2023-21-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}