Linguistic determinism in psychology, sci-fi, and sex
<p>I’ve written about how learning the term “<a href="https://arielist.medium.com/reporting-live-from-the-passion-economy-48637d3fcb67" rel="noopener">Passion Economy</a>” helped me see how much of my thinking these past few years has been about that topic — but it wasn’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, “Not having a word for a notion impairs the ‘getting’ of that idea.”</p>
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