Hi friends,
What are words without action?
You’re fired! I quit! I now pronounce you wife and wife.
Okay, sometimes words make things happen. (These are called performative utterances).
But a lot of the time, words don’t lead to concrete change.
Instead, they show us a vision of the world.
They encode a perspective: certain people matter, certain wants and…
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