The drivelisation of our culture is an interesting aspect but too complex for a single blog post, especially when we take in drivelist politics, drivelist bureaucracy and the general trend of global drivelism.
Suppose we give it a go though and take a moment to reflect on the possibility that the BBC could more accurately have been named BDC, the British Drivelcasting Corporation. Similarly in 1955, ITV could have been IDV, Independent Drivelvision.
So many words and phrases have drivelised, thus contributing to the political rise of Drivelism and Drivelist ideas and policies. We now have drivelised words and terms such as democracy, voting, racist, human rights, welfare, economy, xenophobia, far-right, left-wing, socialism, socialist, liberal, green, environmentalist, carbon, fairness, equality, carbon, climate, sustainable, fascist, extreme, expert, science, clean, recycle, responsible, gender, catastrophic, holistic, community, pledge, promise, bombshell, jaw-dropping, risk, survey, study, unprecedented, fight, critical, literally and many more.
We also have drivelised words such as ‘decimate’, ‘fact’ and ‘proof’ where historically interesting or useful meanings have been drivelised into vague and almost worthless possibilities.
Or we have two common related phrases which are not strictly drivelised because they seem to have evolved within Drivelism for strictly Drivelist purposes. These are the phrases ‘the science says’ and ‘science says’.
It’s literally unprecedented.
6 comments:
Drivelism - the outcome of years of implementation of the lowest common denominator. Or perhaps the lowest common drivel.
He is left-leaning but you are far-right.
Trump is 'literally' Hitler. (A man with a small mustache who died in a bunker in Berlin in 1945).
Particularly as decimate means reduce by one tenth.
Adolf Hitler was born in1889 and would be 136 or so today. Trump is considerably younger and born in a different country.
DJ - it would be interesting to have some idea of how much effect entertainment has had on a drift towards the lowest common denominator. Impossible to estimate perhaps, but an interesting speculation.
Tammly - ha ha, yes I'm sure I've seen that. It's as if adding 'literally' to an assertion makes it stronger.
James - I bet the number who know that is not as high as the number who use the word.
DJ - yet the comparison is made. I believe Tim Walz made an even more bizarre comparison quite recently.
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