In my line of work (writing marketing copy), I’m often asked not to use the word “luxury.” Why? Because so many profoundly cheap products have used the word as to render it meaningless.
The same dismemberment of the language is happening in politics as well. Let’s let the great modern polemicist Christopher Hitchens lay it on the line :
It is cliché, not plagiarism, that is the problem with our stilted, room-temperature political discourse.
It used to be...
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