Living into the Intentionality of what Openness Can Be
Clarity of thought and clarity of expression are often linked. It is striking how elaborate the elocutions become when you don’t just want to speak the plain truth, in this case, “Our principles were getting in the way, so we disposed of them.”
Not quite on topic, but close, is an article today pointing out how crazy Scientific American has gotten. It published a hit piece on the Cass Review, for instance, complaining that it diverged from the recommendations of WPATH and the American Academy of Pediatrics--but the entire point of the article was to demonstrate that the WPATH and AAP recommendations depended on debased science. Even constructing sentences that advance this complaint requires an astonishing muddiness of thought.
Not sure rubber boots are tall enough..might take hip waders... This type of talk is the political equivalent to "art-speak", the endless over educated meaningless drivel so common in the modern art world.
"This type of talk is the political equivalent to "art-speak", the endless over educated meaningless drivel so common in the modern art world." My God yes. My now wife really hated Grad students when we were in Architecture school, as they had near terminal cases of this, and how they bastardized philosophy, oh my.
Not quite on topic, but close, is an article today pointing out how crazy Scientific American has gotten. It published a hit piece on the Cass Review, for instance, complaining that it diverged from the recommendations of WPATH and the American Academy of Pediatrics--but the entire point of the article was to demonstrate that the WPATH and AAP recommendations depended on debased science. Even constructing sentences that advance this complaint requires an astonishing muddiness of thought.
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ReplyDeleteThis type of talk is the political equivalent to "art-speak", the endless over educated meaningless drivel so common in the modern art world.
I used to have a bumper sticker that proclaimed "Eschew Terminological Obfuscation." It garnered a few chuckles.
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"This type of talk is the political equivalent to "art-speak", the endless over educated meaningless drivel so common in the modern art world."
ReplyDeleteMy God yes. My now wife really hated Grad students when we were in Architecture school, as they had near terminal cases of this, and how they bastardized philosophy, oh my.
LR, I would buy that on a shirt.