Towards a definition of 'intrinsic'

If ever there was a misused word, it's the word "intrinsic". Even some of the dictionary definitions are suspect.

Attach it to the word "value" and you enter a philosophical minefield. Now we have an incompletely understood word modifying another incompletely understood word.

And this is all very well if we are just engaged in philosophical word games, but the problem is that the term "intrinsic value" is often used by people in authority to dismiss things that go against their agenda.

And then other people parrot the words without understanding the meaning, or knowing what the original agenda stands for, often to their own detriment.

And then I get annoyed and make videos like this one.