"Epic" "awesome" "revolutionary" "never before seen" "once in a lifetime"

Everything is hyperbole, to the point where "epic"--something that should describe the most important events of human history--is reduced to pressing buttons well in a videogame made for children

Not to say the Protestant core of the USA hasn't had something to do with it (it's the END TIMES, you're going to burn in hell FOREVER, God's love is INFINITE, etc.) but it seems like mostly a market construction

Comical how liberals do the whole "newspeak is coming" don't realize it has; don't need to ban words if you make them completely meaningless

"Freedom" means nothing, "revolution" means nothing, "just" means nothing, "socialism" means nothing, "democracy" means nothing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

    • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      english is a fucked up language. it's completely adapted and evolved as time goes by. the more time goes by, the less colonialist white people have to do with it. this entire original post is reactionary as fuck (probably unintentionally, but still.)

      • Reversi [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        the more time goes by, the less colonialist white people have to do with it.

        The colonialist white person never went away, they just became members of the World Bank and IMF and State Department and military-industrial complex as a whole

        What the fuck was Afghanistan if not a bungled colonialist project? White colonialist thinking bleeds through every single western analysis of China: "oh, if only we could show them the light of western values and DemocracyTM"

        this entire original post is reactionary as fuck

        "The bourgeoisie and servants of capital will manipulate language via ideology, and the capitalist class will dissect and debase language in order to make profits" is reactionary? Alright, sure. Point is that the way language is currently shifting is fucked up, not that languages should never change ever