eeyup.

I prefer the K.I.S.S. principle as often as I can manage it.

Re-defining words/their meanings is a common tactic nowadays, and it's beyond frustrating. Sure, language/words will shift over time. That's kinda a given (Take 'Faggot' for instance. Are you discussing an Olde stack of wood, a cigarette, or applying what is often used as an insult about gay people? Meaning/Sentiment matters (Context, too!)). Yanking 'Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer' books from libraries, because it took place during a time when people USED the 'Hard R' (And for all the justifiably bad reasons, usually!), is a Fools' Errand. People will continue spouting bad things, nonsense and/or stupidity if they're allowed to remain ignorant.

They're also MUCH EASIER TO CONTROL and MANIPULATE, if they're KEPT ignorant! (Sage thought I never let myself forget!)

natural shifts tend to be toward simplicity and utility
unnatural ones degrade simple utility for the greater purpose of getting creative (dangerous) minds working to the interest of another


Semantic study was once somewhat more commonplace. Now its very name is used to denote frivolity in thought.
Just had the thought smack me across the face; maybe it was always taken to a manipulative end. The only universal human truth is self-interest after all, why would fifty years reduce the value of propaganda?

You're speaking far too much truth and common sense! Not sure this platform can endure it?

Reminds me of a few folks.

Eschew obfuscation.

my fellow perpetual winners of 'fell for it again' awards

I find myself wishing not for the prescience to see the snare ahead of time, but the ignorance to lose myself in support of the trapper.
To have purpose, to have righteous indignation, to be blind to the metaphorical noose being tied by my own hands around my own neck. It must feel good to wave posters around and shout slogans... Ignorant of their underlying purposes.

Overly-complex language is an elitist status symbol—needless intricacy assembled for the purpose of litmus-checking the level of someone's snobbishness.
"If you couldn't understand what I just said, then you don't deserve to."

then you start noticing how much programming is directed at the crowd who think themselves too intelligent to fall for programming efforts

To be taken alongside how such creative minds are concentrated in gatekeeping positions.
Unwitting middle management for globohomo, slaving their lives away selling self-sacrificial ideology as though it is self-interest.