Wait, people have to censor the word Nazi now? How far down the drain of fuckedness has the US swirled? Has anyone read 1984? This is as close to newspeak as you could possibly get.
And no, performative semi-censorship is not the closest thing to NewSpeak.
That would be probably be corpospeak, the art of using a lot of vague yet fancy terms to say basically nothing of any precise meaning.
Either that or what TikTok has done to psychology terminology, warping and misunderstanding so many phrases that we now have ‘therapyspeak’ as a similar set of vocabulary terms that have vague and undefined meanings, because so many people use them so innapropriately, so often, that they basically mean nothing in a general, non specialized context.
As an example: Trauma bond.
People seem to think this means that people who suffer together, grow a bond between each other, based in overcoming shared struggles due to / caused by external stressors.
That’s not a trauma bond.
A trauma bond is more like when someone is consistently mistreated and abused by another person, that first person cannot really imagine life without that second person, without being oriented around them, so the idea of totally disconnecting from their abuser is itself existentially terrifying, and they thus paradoxically begin to defend the relationship with abuser.
Wait, people have to censor the word Nazi now? How far down the drain of fuckedness has the US swirled? Has anyone read 1984? This is as close to newspeak as you could possibly get.
Its Twitter.
Its run by a Nazi.
And no, performative semi-censorship is not the closest thing to NewSpeak.
That would be probably be corpospeak, the art of using a lot of vague yet fancy terms to say basically nothing of any precise meaning.
Either that or what TikTok has done to psychology terminology, warping and misunderstanding so many phrases that we now have ‘therapyspeak’ as a similar set of vocabulary terms that have vague and undefined meanings, because so many people use them so innapropriately, so often, that they basically mean nothing in a general, non specialized context.
As an example: Trauma bond.
People seem to think this means that people who suffer together, grow a bond between each other, based in overcoming shared struggles due to / caused by external stressors.
That’s not a trauma bond.
A trauma bond is more like when someone is consistently mistreated and abused by another person, that first person cannot really imagine life without that second person, without being oriented around them, so the idea of totally disconnecting from their abuser is itself existentially terrifying, and they thus paradoxically begin to defend the relationship with abuser.