bewitchment

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. To me it seems like the battle that Wittgenstein postulates was lost in the first place.

It is in silence and what isn't said that our fears and anxieties hide, that we abandon our higher natures, and succumb to the bewitchment of our primal instincts. A man can be reasoned with, and reckon his way out of line of Bullshit.

However, Wittgenstein argues that these problems are, in fact, "bewitchments" that arise from philosophers' misuse of language. In Wittgenstein's view, language is inextricably woven into the fabric of life, and as part of that fabric it works relatively unproblematically.

Technology and our bewitchment by it, and the power conferred through it's use are things tempered by prudence and an active sense of obligation to those around us, and those we'll be leaving behind to carry on after us. I'm incredibly alarmed at the willingness to embrace the sacrifice of essential liberty nowadays...