I really intend this diary to be a bit of fun, understand some might not see it that way, but what can you do?
As a political junky, I read a lot, and I read comments too. In fact, it is fair to say I read a lot more than I comment. Like everyone else here, I have heartfelt convictions, but not so much tolerance for endless day to day combat in a world where yesterday’s big story is today’s who cares and where I see political partisans becoming like sports teams. But that’s just me. More comfortable with the long view, not always trustful of my knee jerk reactions.
But as an ardent reader, and a lover of words, I find myself longing for more and better. I find myself upon greeting certain words, over and over and over again...hmmmmm, what are the words? Maybe snow blind? Maybe numb to them? Maybe no longer able to see or hear them?
So here’s the words that have lost their meaning for me, which is NOT to say they don’t have meaning. For instance, “oligarchy” certainly does have meaning! Simply that they are used so often, by so many, on such different sides of the fence, that my eyes glaze over, and I long for the details behind these words, a fleshing out beyond throwing them around willy nilly.
But then, a cliche is a cliche for a reason, and I can’t argue with that. And I DO understand certain words wield a lot of power as cliches.
Still, It does get tiresome for me, and EVEN WHEN I AGREE, becomes just so much blah, blah, blah.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
There are people every day here who communicate in ways that touch my heart…and my brain. Which is why I’m still here.
Here’s my list of terms I find…unhelpful.
-Troll and trolling
-Neo ANYTHING
-Thanks for your concern
-tone police
-Rino or Dino
-Corporate media
-Lame-stream media
-Political correctness
-Bot ANYTHING
-cult of personality
-Oligarchy
-war monger
-Corporate stooge-
-establishment
-shill, shilling and shillers
-conspiracy theory
-in the bag for
And that’s just off the top of my hat. SIGH. It is what it is, but to this lover of words, I just wish, again, for more and better. The time it takes to not repeat a cliche, but rather flesh out what you mean. I know , that takes a lot of work.
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