The Amorous Arch-Expounder

Monodimensionalizing or monolith-izing any concept, person, feeling, or group is intrinsically problematic and philosophically lazy. Love, such as we experience it, is complicated and messy, as much as it is fulfilling and magnificent. It isn’t the most admirable circumstance, or the most honorable person; it doesn’t reflect the modern oh-so-sterile and updated, clinically appropriate, informed and trauma conscious relationship. It’s Madness.

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New clothes for nonsense

I'm a fan of precise speech, and I believe that adages, terms, and philosophies which are merely a product of unexamined in-group/out-group biases, are quite, well...boring. William Zinsser is adamant about economizing speech wherever possible and reminds us to trim from our vocabulary words that aren't "doing any work," as he says.

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