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4. I saw an article by John Naughton
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 02:16 AM
Mar 13

Which I cannot locate at the moment on how metaphor is the new weapon in the war on terror. I always found Si Valley’s use of euphemisms like “janitors” or worse “homelessness” grating.

I find processing language and faces online superficially annoying in recent years after seeing demeaning suggestions about human decision making as driven by influence and manipulation rather than real world signals.
How shallow do they have to be ffs?

But these guys steeped in kayfabe and game worlds and on the flip side their shopaholic counterparts (a pox on all of them), probably do see the world that solipsistically and narcissistically.
This Ozymandias or Supermom like figure in thr centre surrounded by various pawns who exist to gratify this self centred human, while any pride in the pawns is treated ironically as self obsession.

They mangle language perception by the brain.

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