So many new terms/concepts, so quickly diluted in the sea of public discourse. “Disruption”, “pivot”, “refactor” … all had precise, technical meanings; all picked up and tossed about so loosely by casual observers that they stretch into unrecognizability. Why does this happen?

After Demi Lovato passed by sugar-free cookies in a Los Angeles frozen yogurt shop last year, they weren't just annoyed — they claimed to be a victim of diet culture's "harmful messaging." After Damon Albarn, the lead singer of Blur, falsely claimed that Taylor Swift doesn't write her own songs, he wasn't merely considered to be misinformed or a... See more

1/ “A strikingly cyclical effort to sanitize speech has contributed to widespread misunderstanding of psychoanalytic tradition. Over time, whatever the original intentions of those people who coined any specific psychological term, labels for certain conditions ineluctably come