Linguistic determinism in psychology, sci-fi, and sex

<p>I&rsquo;ve written about how learning the term &ldquo;<a href="https://arielist.medium.com/reporting-live-from-the-passion-economy-48637d3fcb67" rel="noopener">Passion Economy</a>&rdquo; helped me see how much of my thinking these past few years has been about that topic &mdash; but it wasn&rsquo;t until I learned the term that I was able to connect the dots.</p> <p>My father, a retired professor and city bureaucrat who now spends most of his time writing poetry, sent an email about how the essay had reminded him of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.</p> <p>As my dad said, &ldquo;Not having a word for a notion impairs the &lsquo;getting&rsquo; of that idea.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://arielist.medium.com/linguistic-determinism-in-psychology-sci-fi-and-sex-af936a7ea6f6"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>