Repudate.
Some thoughts on the word in context with modern society.
November 10, 2006.
We use language all of the time in our everyday lives. Yet, we rarely take the time look up the definition of a word. Today we will consider the word to Repudiate, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
- to divorce or separate formally from (a woman)
- to refuse to have anything to do with
- to refuse to accept; to reject as unauthorized or as having no binding force; to reject as untrue or unjust
- to refuse to acknowledge or pay
For the purposes of this discussion the first one on the list is unimportant and irrelevant. The last three meanings are a particularly strong form of rejection of something. This something could be a variety of things, yet when combined with the words: our modern society it seems to have a particularly pointed meaning.
What would it mean to truly repudiate modern life? Could one really do that or even truly aspire to do that? Would that rejection mean the end of human life as we know it? Maybe there is a lot to dislike about our world but can we really reject it?
