Language and fall of Civilization?

Question

I heard a lecture a long time ago which compared two language topics and how it closely correlates to fall of the culture that uses the language. One was an increase in the use of sarcasm which represents the last form of honest communication when all other forms have failed. Two, dissembling the meaning of common words (Example would be parties who don’t agree what the word greed means).

The trouble is, trying typing any of that into a search engine and get any results. I haven’t been able to. So I am asking for any resources that might backup any of topics above becuase its very possible my memmory of the details are completely inaccurate.

Answer 1

Wow. No thanks. I don't know what your working on, but I do know they say IQ has no correlation with success in life, public or private and that EQ has a very high correlation. And the phrase educated idiot. Words, graphs, charts, math and any attempt to relate to life with abstract symbols can disconnect us from reality in a negative way, if overdone. The phrase common sense probably refers to intuitive sense, which science is saying is a tiger and our thinking a monkey on it's back, presumably more of a hinderance than a help. Direct experience is true and uses the five senses and the inner senses or/and the picture reasoning of the brain. It compares millions of pictures for fallacies instead of words and sentence construction. We get to 'smart' for our own good and reason becomes rationalization. Even low level science tends to leave out the mind as another sense. Make any sense?