"we live in the same world and interact all the time, we will share a lot of meanings, and this will make them look somewhat objective"
Ironically enough, although this may not have been your intended meaning but what crossed my mind was whether our culture is creating a further divergence between the meaning people assign to words/phrases or further amalgamating and uniting them, particularly in regards to social media and the internet.
On one hand as more people are exposed to the same media which is on par with globalisation and our current mo...
Thanks for the prompt reply, I'm going to add one last thing to this discussion:
"I should caveat this with the fact that I would probably struggle to recognise our more deeply held shared meanings, in the whole fish-recognising-water sense."
Aha, this is where I think human language limits us, since it's our secondary nature to make assumptions and pre-judgements (to keep conversations going) that fit in neatly with mass-accepted beliefs or "Schelling points," as you referenced. Making too many assumptions can hurt deeper connection, I fear, because stereot... (read more)