Creating and catching a buzz from 'simple' vocabulary ...
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:29 pm
Very often one will come across in mainstream newspapers countless specious, red-herring buzzwords—e.g. “ring-wing,” “communist,” “reactionary” and “politically-correct”—being spewed to muddy the waters of legitimate concerns and debate.
And such buzzwords are utilized all across the spectrum: by citizens, special interest lobbyists, politicians, as well as news-media opinion-makers, etcetera.
I observe such buzzwords quite readily during the re-election of scandal-plagued governing parties, and with strong majorities to make sure that the natural-resource-extraction machine runs full-steam ahead; and it's obvious that such re-election owes much credit to large industry-interest advertising and carte-blanche news-media-commentator hype about some imagined first-and-foremost need for economic/job growth to come before healthy eco-system concerns. Thus, by deduction, the electorate must therefore perpetually re-elect big capitalist governments thus keeping out of office the socialist hoards.
One might as well just proclaim: ‘Long live socio-economic Darwinism—survival of the most employed and gratuitously wealthy!’
And such buzzwords are utilized all across the spectrum: by citizens, special interest lobbyists, politicians, as well as news-media opinion-makers, etcetera.
I observe such buzzwords quite readily during the re-election of scandal-plagued governing parties, and with strong majorities to make sure that the natural-resource-extraction machine runs full-steam ahead; and it's obvious that such re-election owes much credit to large industry-interest advertising and carte-blanche news-media-commentator hype about some imagined first-and-foremost need for economic/job growth to come before healthy eco-system concerns. Thus, by deduction, the electorate must therefore perpetually re-elect big capitalist governments thus keeping out of office the socialist hoards.
One might as well just proclaim: ‘Long live socio-economic Darwinism—survival of the most employed and gratuitously wealthy!’