Umair Haque's plight is that words have been for the most part colonized by capital. The people speaking them and being heard are extremely removed from what they mean. Capital uses words for an effect in people, not for what they mean towards empowering them.

There's no such thing as an Independent Thinker. Instead, we are thought, spun, captured in egos by the existing epistemologies. We think we command words, but it is them that command us.