What’s In A Choice?
Written by redqueeninla in Education
“Choice” has to be the most loaded word in the English lexicon.
“Loaded” in the sense that, when one person uses the term, associated with it is a special, private meaning used to communicate with a special, private group of people; others do not know the special meaning. And so what happens is the word takes on separate meanings among different sets of folks. Enormous confusion and subterfusion gets propagated.
Thus the word itself creates a “wedge” between groups of people because they proceed thinking they’re communicating with one another when in fact, they are not. Even though the words of communication are common between them, the groups are wedged impermeably apart by virtue of the special, private meanings for loaded words. Purportedly same language, supposedly same words, utterly different meanings.
We are all consumers of disingenuous language via marketing and advertisement. Everyone knows we are being manipulated to want, to feel the “gimmes”, to buy-buy-buy. And many of us claim veteran status in the more