Because words matter.
The Georgia Dept. of Transportation removed 488 small towns from its 2006 state highway map. In its attempt to explain this deletion the Georgia DOT’s statement to CNN describes many of those towns as “placeholders“. CNN notes the towns generally comprise “fewer than 2,500 people”.
Attention, you 2500 persons: You may have thought […]
Author and playwright Robert Anton Wilson writes about Understanding E-Prime, the notion of abolishing all forms of the verb “to be”. It has some interesting thoughts on how “semantic hygiene” can lead to a better life:
To understand E-Prime, consider the human brain as a computer…The wrong software guarantees wrong answers. Conversely, finding the right […]
You read it here first. (Well, unless you read it at Slowly She Turned, but I wrote it there first.)
The phrase “conspicuous consumption” has been around for some time. It describes a cultural value that leads to deforestation, pollution, habitat loss, endangered species… in general, it leads to damage of our only home planet.
Conspicuous […]
I will acknowledge your values if you acknowledge mine.
Okay. You go first.
No, you go first.
No way!
Lather. Rinse. Repeat…
What do we value most? Acknowledgement and validation of our own views? Or breaking out of a vicious cycle of deadlock?
