Preach! You didn't need to ask an AI - I can confirm that this is a real thing. I think it's the natural evolution of corporate/HR bs speak, and is also a part of the fakeification/plastification/whatever you want to call it of every damn thing in the world. Fake wood floors, fake food, fake bodies, fake introspection, fake relationships, fake realization. All performative, existing only to be seen - no substance underneath. It's like everyone's happy living in a Potemkin world as long as it's postable.
The use of words with absolute meaning have been usurped in favor of ambiguity with a dash of "it's what I want it to mean" thrown in. They don't make decoder rings anymore.
Changing the meaning of words or better yet, making them up to fit a narrative, expecting a normal person to get it, not to mention having the ability to read between the lines is just plain.....wait for it....
That's why marriage counselors are so popular. One party has already made up his/her mind, but they insist on going to the counselor so that they can deflect blame: "Well, we saw somebody". Been there, done that.
You remind me of the Dear John letters from when I was a teenager. You aren't married and you want to dump the girl, but how do you tell her? Being blunt and honest can get them really upset and cause trouble, so you attempt to soften the blow. "Things just weren't working between us." "We're heading in different directions." And so on.
In the Christian world I grew up in, you would never talk about separation or divorce. Christians just didn't do those things. And we lived in a world where you wouldn't hear anybody say otherwise. But now we live on the Internet, and we have devolved into what feels good to each of us.
Now, even the pastors who counselled couples to stick together are in trouble for doing just that - because they are seen as condoning abuse.
We counselled our own daughter to get divorced because her husband cheated on her, lied about it, and wouldn't come clean - even after the other woman told my daughter. Then we read about far worse cases, and you wonder if that was best. Life isn't easy, passive voice or not.
Preach! You didn't need to ask an AI - I can confirm that this is a real thing. I think it's the natural evolution of corporate/HR bs speak, and is also a part of the fakeification/plastification/whatever you want to call it of every damn thing in the world. Fake wood floors, fake food, fake bodies, fake introspection, fake relationships, fake realization. All performative, existing only to be seen - no substance underneath. It's like everyone's happy living in a Potemkin world as long as it's postable.
Great article and so very true.
Let your yes be yes and your no be no.
The use of words with absolute meaning have been usurped in favor of ambiguity with a dash of "it's what I want it to mean" thrown in. They don't make decoder rings anymore.
Changing the meaning of words or better yet, making them up to fit a narrative, expecting a normal person to get it, not to mention having the ability to read between the lines is just plain.....wait for it....
neologistic.
That's why marriage counselors are so popular. One party has already made up his/her mind, but they insist on going to the counselor so that they can deflect blame: "Well, we saw somebody". Been there, done that.
You remind me of the Dear John letters from when I was a teenager. You aren't married and you want to dump the girl, but how do you tell her? Being blunt and honest can get them really upset and cause trouble, so you attempt to soften the blow. "Things just weren't working between us." "We're heading in different directions." And so on.
In the Christian world I grew up in, you would never talk about separation or divorce. Christians just didn't do those things. And we lived in a world where you wouldn't hear anybody say otherwise. But now we live on the Internet, and we have devolved into what feels good to each of us.
Now, even the pastors who counselled couples to stick together are in trouble for doing just that - because they are seen as condoning abuse.
We counselled our own daughter to get divorced because her husband cheated on her, lied about it, and wouldn't come clean - even after the other woman told my daughter. Then we read about far worse cases, and you wonder if that was best. Life isn't easy, passive voice or not.