Who we are
In a world where the most easily-violated boundaries we recognize are personal ones….it often begins in the seemingly innocuous realm of which words we choose.
Hive-think/parrot-speak (yes, I coined it, seems appropriate!) is fueled by television. Scripted “news reports”. ‘Talk shows’. Commercials featuring mangled rhymes, co-opting old slogans, recycled jingles. Messaging. Texts. E-mails.
Result?
Lazy discourse. The least amount of effort expended yields the most truncated, disordered thought processes — and it shows. From there, we detect a predictable process of half-assing every conversation, every missive, until within the morass of “communication”, there is no linguistic rigor.
What we say, what we write, is who we are.
Incorrect grammar is the least of it. How can there be linear thinking, analytical analysis, abstract reasoning — when what now passes for debate or simple discussion is a series of soft words and empty phrases, signifying nothing?
