chris t ([info]lifftchi) wrote,
@ 2009-02-28 20:58:00
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long habit of non-enforcement.
Today I had a strong sense that the word "sabotage" was visibly fading from the language, becoming as dead as the term "sans-culottism". As dead, indeed, as the wooden shoes from which the word is said to have sprung.

"Terrorist", however, which I believe dates from the same time and place, is alive and well.


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[info]lifftchi
2009-03-01 11:02 am UTC (link)
Huh. Maybe I just haven't noticed that everyone in the world is actively hostile to my aims and acts to destroy my works at every opportunity. Such a condition would render me unlikely to need the word, and thus less likely to use it.

Also, I deeply internalized the axiom "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" (Hanlon's razor.) Turns out stupidity adequately explains a heck of a lot.

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