I don’t believe that academic journals are an efficient form of information transmission. Academics support academic journals (when they support academic journals) because journals serve other useful purposes.
Often non-epistemic consequences of words are useful, and often they aren’t a big deal. I wouldn’t use the word “corrupted” to describe “having political consequences,” it’s the default state of human discussions.
Public discussion is sometimes much more efficient than private discussion. A central example is when the writer’s time is much more valuable than the reader’s time, or when it would be high-friction for the reader to buy off the writer’s time. (Though in this case, what’s occurring isn’t really discourse.) There are of course other examples.
Doing things like “writing down your thoughts carefully, and then reusing what you’ve written down” is important whether discussion occurs in public or private.
I don’t believe that academic journals are an efficient form of information transmission. Academics support academic journals (when they support academic journals) because journals serve other useful purposes.
Often non-epistemic consequences of words are useful, and often they aren’t a big deal. I wouldn’t use the word “corrupted” to describe “having political consequences,” it’s the default state of human discussions.
Public discussion is sometimes much more efficient than private discussion. A central example is when the writer’s time is much more valuable than the reader’s time, or when it would be high-friction for the reader to buy off the writer’s time. (Though in this case, what’s occurring isn’t really discourse.) There are of course other examples.
Doing things like “writing down your thoughts carefully, and then reusing what you’ve written down” is important whether discussion occurs in public or private.