Words. Bloody words, damn all the words, everywhere, to hell.
There they are, minding their own linguistic business, meaning what they’ve always meant — then and along comes a comedian with a Netflix special, or the NHS with an awareness raising health campaign, and boom, nothing means anything dependably anymore.
Couple that with the perma-comedy culture wars, the rising tide of woke loathing and attempts and — for want of a much better word — successes in cancel culture and, double boom, the Netflix special meets the mob and the only winners are owners of social media platforms.
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