Monday, July 06, 2020

Q&A …

… The Apocalypse of Wordlessness: An Interview with Alexander Theroux – The Collidescope.



We live in an age of supreme scruple as far as political correctness goes. Problems are now ‘challenges’; garbage collectors are ‘sanitation engineers’; caretakers are ‘site engineers’; vomiting an ‘unplanned re-examination of recent food choices’. We must avoid all passive, victim words. Christmas and crippled and manpower are now forbidden. Euphemisms are a comfort to the dumb and the diffident. Using the word ‘genius’ is considered unfair. A hospital consultant was recently accused of sexism after praising a father for “manfully” stepping in to bring his daughter for an appointment when his wife was unavailable. Nowadays the word impact is almost always used incorrectly, same with hopefully. All very fine. But at the same time, we are living in one of the crudest, least articulate periods in all of world history. It was once the case that newspaper reporters or TV and radio broadcasters would be embarrassed – mortified – to appear biased. Now it is standard operating procedure. What about gender madness? It is almost a cartoon world in this department, right out of Jonathan Swift. I have never seen manners and mores and mercy so widely disregarded by so many.


Amen, brother!

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