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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg cover image

All the Old Dudes

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Clear Language in Transitional Periods

In our age there is no such thing as quote, keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues and politics itself a massive lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

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