I agree. I see much confusion about word meaning. I study language, symbols and reality myself: Occulting and Encrypting Reality through Word Magic - Language and Reality Pt.3, Symbols, Reality, Knowledge, Belief and Attachment.

My point was that yes use the etymology, as I often do. But in doing so, you can see how words have changed meaning, and how multiple levels of meaning can exist in words. I am not advocating simply redefining words at our whim to choose to alter our perception of reality for a specific agenda.

This is the point behind "newspeak" in Orwell's 1984, to obfuscate and confuse the meaning of reality and limit the degree of conception we can invoke from it, thereby limiting consciousness and keeping it under control, mind control.