Rectify the names

An intersting point. From The Rectification of Names of Armed and Dangerous

The sage Confucius was once asked what he would do if he was a governor. He said he would “rectify the names” to make words correspond to reality. He understood what General Semantics teaches; if your linguistic map is sufficiently confused, you will misunderstand the territory. And be readily outmaneuvered by those who are less confused.

Indeed. We live in a world where our public discourse is dominated by shouting voices who practice deliberate ambiguity, obfuscation, bad metaphors, misdirection and Orwellian Newspeak.

Rectify!