{"id":6959,"date":"2021-04-26T06:48:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6959"},"modified":"2021-04-26T06:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:48:42","slug":"words-with-no-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/words-with-no-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Words with No Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6959\" data-postid=\"6959\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6959 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I have taken to compiling a list of words commonly used in private and platform American conversation that have little or no meaning anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they are employed as if they have great meaning. Buzzwords, they used to be called, the banal product of tired and shoddy thinking, on the Left and Right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s my current list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normalcy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Existential<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glint<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unpack<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Optics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viral<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Distraction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Identity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Socialism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Phrase) My thoughts and prayers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Phrase) So sorry for your loss<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Phrase) In reality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patriot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cancel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grooming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freedom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offensive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inappropriate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uncomfortable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entitlement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Privilege<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surreal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Treatment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therapy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homeless<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Story<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addict<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zombie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brand<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have taken to compiling a list of words commonly used in private and platform American conversation that have little or no meaning anymore. But they are employed as if they have great meaning. Buzzwords, they used to be called, the banal product of tired and shoddy thinking, on the Left and Right. Here&#8217;s my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6962,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions\/6962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}