I'll return to it later, as Heather's columns may make apt.
In the meantime, please consider Orwell's warning in "Politics and the English Language" -- that we cannot choose if we inhabit a vocabulary of slogans, cliché, group abstractions, and packaged labels. Thus poisoned, many fancy they…
I'll return to it later, as Heather's columns may make apt.
In the meantime, please consider Orwell's warning in "Politics and the English Language" -- that we cannot choose if we inhabit a vocabulary of slogans, cliché, group abstractions, and packaged labels. Thus poisoned, many fancy they can still choose, but it's too late. They're blind to what they're actually doing. Rather like that figure in Auden's "August, 1968":
Superb point you raise, Diedra. "We can choose."
I'll return to it later, as Heather's columns may make apt.
In the meantime, please consider Orwell's warning in "Politics and the English Language" -- that we cannot choose if we inhabit a vocabulary of slogans, cliché, group abstractions, and packaged labels. Thus poisoned, many fancy they can still choose, but it's too late. They're blind to what they're actually doing. Rather like that figure in Auden's "August, 1968":
"The ogre stalks with hands on hips
While drivel gushes from his lips."