🚀 Language is failing us. In this episode, we dive deep into how words shape reality—and what happens when they lose their meaning. 🔍 Topics Covered: ✅ How San Francisco’s Potemkin village mirrors Orwell’s 1984 ✅ The collapse of language and how it leads to the collapse of society ✅ How semantic drift, hyperbole, and inversion make words meaningless ✅ Orwell’s 1984 vs. Michael Cuenco’s theory on modern culture wars ✅ Hypernormalisation and the Soviet Union’s reality distortion ✅ The "ladder of false logic"—how we trick ourselves into believing lies ✅ Matthew Crawford vs. Kant: How detachment from reality fuels today’s crises ✅ Attention economy & distraction—how language is weaponized against you ✅ How to reclaim reality and stay grounded in truth 🔥 Why This Matters: We are floating in an ideological orbit, detached from truth, trapped in an illusion of freedom. This episode explores how to re-enter reality before it’s too late. 🎧 LISTEN NOW and learn how to resist semantic manipulation and reconnect words with meaning. #Orwell1984 #LanguageManipulation #Hypernormalisation #CultureWar #PoliticalDiscourse #RealityVsPerception #AttentionEconomy #PhilosophyPodcast #SemanticDrift #CognitiveBias 0:00 Introduction: Thought experiment on augmented reality facade in San Francisco 02:27 Breakdown of language and the failure to address real issues 05:39 Historical parallels to 1984 and the concept of hypernormalization 09:43 Semantic drift and the ladder of false logic 19:41 The contemporary crisis and the linguistic containment of reality 24:26 Reconnecting language with reality and suggestions for the way forward 26:11 Conclusion and plans for future exploration