Meaning is contested but not because we explicitly or necessarily choose this particular path. If meaning and cultural or political and psychological significance was not subject to ambiguity and confusion, deception and misdirection in the ways it generally is, the adaptive system of bartered value and utility we build around and as language would be rendered ineffective.
Subjective experience is inflated and sustained by interpreted and asserted meanings. The plausible impossibility of a perfect communication system is also the assurance of continuity for an imperfect one.
Food for thought. And beetles.
Daedelus Kite 