civilisationReview

You often hear about old movies being 'rebooted', old products given a 'reboot' don't you. I find the juvenilisation of language to be most annoying. They tend to use what i would term, 'reactive' language, which isn't surprising since the young are prone to reaction over thought, immediate and shallow gratification, and are severely underexposed. Orwell spoke about how people can be made stupid through the contraction of vocabulary. Most insightful. The 'contraction' of language we are seeing now, ever since the young became a dominant market force (that paradoxically makes the juvenile market easy for the corporation to dominate) is in terms of the contraction of understanding through the juvenilisation of language. Understanding things through juvenile language just serves to render one's appreciation of things shallow. This is especially so in an age where the young are deprived of two invaluable sources of knowledge - the older ...

I keep seeing this silly word all over the place (oh dear, the american juvenile again...).  Well, I finally searched for its meaning, and discovered that it is supposed to mean, 'not impressive', or a nonchalant monosyllabic ejaculation of disinterest.  So an expressive ejaculation by an ill-educated american teen who's inclined toward reaction as opposed to cogitation becomes a word.  I see. Such ‘words’ - OMG, LOL, Meh, et cetera - are like gaseous reactions, like flatulence, or a much awaited burp from a child with colic.  It relieves one of the need to justify their 'meh'.  It's a proclamation of judgement based on ‘feeling’, with such a reaction being mistaken for explanation - not unlike words like ‘eww’, 'cool', 'weird', 'dork', 'nerd', ‘creepy’, amongst other great literary achievements by american teenagers.  Mark Twain, Hemmingway, didn’t know what they were missing. THIS is certainly a new twist on the evolution of Orw...