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Nov. 18th, 2019 08:08 pmI am absolutely gagging on rage, completely rabid, over frankly a really stupid and not at all worth the energy or emotions essay circulating on tumblr.
The thesis of the essay is that modern casual communication relies too heavily on slang and allusion, and that people should speak to eachother at a more intellectual and less referential level, like they used to do in the unspecified but way better past.
The author basically doesn't understand certain common references made in casual conversation, and rather than considering what those references could me or doing research on them, the author is screaming about how other people aren't doing the research or considering the implications. Because if other people did the research and considered the implications, then the author wouldn't have to, and things would be so much better. Therefore, the entirety of modern society should shift to better cater to the author. And to justify that catering, the author keeps making vague allusions to a time when people actually did speak with well researched and absolute clarity free of allusion or dated slang. Only, of course, there's no such time. That time literally does not exist because people have been alluding and slanging since we invented language.
It's really a frustratingly bad concept, and it absolutely reeks of neo-con palingenesis given the thinnest coast of paint to make it sound progressive.
And I shouldn't care that much, because peopel are wrong all the time.
But that particular brand of rhetoric is usually just some Stormfront nazi shit. And to see literally hundreds of supposedly progressive people on tumblr saying that it's the most brilliant, insightful thing they've read all month is really alarming. And enraging.
And I'm just so absolutely fucking livid.
The thesis of the essay is that modern casual communication relies too heavily on slang and allusion, and that people should speak to eachother at a more intellectual and less referential level, like they used to do in the unspecified but way better past.
The author basically doesn't understand certain common references made in casual conversation, and rather than considering what those references could me or doing research on them, the author is screaming about how other people aren't doing the research or considering the implications. Because if other people did the research and considered the implications, then the author wouldn't have to, and things would be so much better. Therefore, the entirety of modern society should shift to better cater to the author. And to justify that catering, the author keeps making vague allusions to a time when people actually did speak with well researched and absolute clarity free of allusion or dated slang. Only, of course, there's no such time. That time literally does not exist because people have been alluding and slanging since we invented language.
It's really a frustratingly bad concept, and it absolutely reeks of neo-con palingenesis given the thinnest coast of paint to make it sound progressive.
And I shouldn't care that much, because peopel are wrong all the time.
But that particular brand of rhetoric is usually just some Stormfront nazi shit. And to see literally hundreds of supposedly progressive people on tumblr saying that it's the most brilliant, insightful thing they've read all month is really alarming. And enraging.
And I'm just so absolutely fucking livid.
