sounds great, end definitions, words will mean whatever one wants them to mean am i right my penis?
When someone tells me that liberalism is "the social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy and free enterprise" yes, its not wrong. But someone who in our current society that is not politically educated might think that its just a basic ideology that promotes progressism... when in reality the political reality of liberalism is the opposite:
- It promotes and idealistic vision of humanity
- It promotes capitalistic values
- It promotes the myth of meritocracy
- And its an ideology that has a lot of porosity with right wing and far right values.
So we must extend our reach to the contextual reality of words, not stick to their definitions. any linguists will tell you that sticking to dictionnaries is damaging to understand language.