And Words are All I Have To Take Your Heart Away

At Echidne of the Snakes, Anthony McCarthy notes a sudden upswing in free-speech absolutism on the "right" coinciding with unrestrained commercial communications media:

We have a media which promotes a nihilistic, steroid soaked profit worshiping dystopia which is mindless and violent, thriving on a system in which people can’t even face their personal finances realistically. And that's not mentioning misogynist, bigoted, caste bound and enthusiastically unequal. The stream of consciousness that an increasing number of people are floating is nightmarish and more polluted as it flows on.

(I am not at ease with his call for morality because absolute morality is, um, relative.)

On the "words have meaning" bench, we have a published author who used a term associated with a war atrocity and a number of people who have eloquently called the author out on this (and this is not this author's first transgression with this term) matter:

1. On history and memory;
2. That stupid business about mythologizing;
3. Patalim;
4. Only our life, our life, and its forgetting;
5. Your broken project is not a war crime; and
6. One reason why anybody using 'PC' bugs the [everloving] crap out of me.

And now I need to be away from the Net for a bit. Later!