我们使用的词语就像我们穿的衣服。它们可以让我们看起来聪明或愚蠢,善良或残忍,坚强或软弱。
"The words we use are like the clothes we wear. They can make us look smart or silly, kind or cruel, strong or weak."
The idea is to make something that looks like something else.
The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.