Orwell wrote a fantastic essay describing what you are seeing very well called "Politics and the English Language."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." Great piece, thank you.
One might speculate, in a humoristic manner, that those nasty brain eating amoeba, recently found in Florida tap water, may have made their way north into the drinking water of our universities and inflicted brain atrophy on the schools policy makers. An amusing explanation but unfortunately the etiology of this phenomenon is more sociological than biological. The most obvious culprit for this hysteria epidemic is simply thought conformity, group think, herd mentality or any other name to describe the surrender of individual thought to that of the group for fear of social rejection. Although we have not yet reached the stage of burning witches at the stake, writer, Arthur Miller, does provide some prophetic advice when he said:
"A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.”
Articles like this at least make clear what people who are unwilling to conform to the mass mentality of "wokeism" are up against. Sort of depressing--but on the other hand, to be among the few who are both willing to be aware of the extent of wokeism and to actively retain their integrity of thought and reason against it is to count oneself amongst a "rarefied few" (or maybe just plain old "stubborn bunch"), like those professors at the end of Fahrenheit 451 who tramp around passing on the memorized contents of all the burnt books. More to the point--this article suggests its own "action plan" with regard to neologistic woke language, and I hope the author will expand upon it in a future article.
Orwell wrote a fantastic essay describing what you are seeing very well called "Politics and the English Language."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." Great piece, thank you.
Beautiful. I wish the author was not anon, but I understand why they are.
One might speculate, in a humoristic manner, that those nasty brain eating amoeba, recently found in Florida tap water, may have made their way north into the drinking water of our universities and inflicted brain atrophy on the schools policy makers. An amusing explanation but unfortunately the etiology of this phenomenon is more sociological than biological. The most obvious culprit for this hysteria epidemic is simply thought conformity, group think, herd mentality or any other name to describe the surrender of individual thought to that of the group for fear of social rejection. Although we have not yet reached the stage of burning witches at the stake, writer, Arthur Miller, does provide some prophetic advice when he said:
"A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.”
Cultural barbarians have taken over academia. They will soon be blowing up statues like the Buddha carvings the Taliban exploded in Bamiyan.
Articles like this at least make clear what people who are unwilling to conform to the mass mentality of "wokeism" are up against. Sort of depressing--but on the other hand, to be among the few who are both willing to be aware of the extent of wokeism and to actively retain their integrity of thought and reason against it is to count oneself amongst a "rarefied few" (or maybe just plain old "stubborn bunch"), like those professors at the end of Fahrenheit 451 who tramp around passing on the memorized contents of all the burnt books. More to the point--this article suggests its own "action plan" with regard to neologistic woke language, and I hope the author will expand upon it in a future article.