The loss of meaning feels like a real problem. It feels like the last ten years has had a lot of rapid turnover with our post-truth world.

People want to use extreme language to describe extreme events, make people emotional. But when every event is labeled that way, it loses meaning, even if it is true:

• calling people Hitler
• racism
• genocide
• antisemitism
• health care
• truth
• patriotism

We have had actual racism, actual genocide, actual antisemitism. But if every event becomes these things, what do the words even mean?