Word(s)

Words are not created equal.  Neither are ideas, principles or motives.  The former can often skew the perception and acceptance of the latter.  No major newspaper is published above a 5th grade reading level, you know, just to be safe.  The premium placed on brevity is often just laziness all decked-out in efficiency's clothing.  Simplicity is not a virture, it's a complex world out there and Occam's Razor (at least as applied now) was a made up concept.  Sometimes the complex and ugly solution is better than the simple, clean, pretty and - and oh it just happens to be wrong - one. 

Speaking of which, when did all those khaki-wearing Harvard MBAs get control of common parlance?  When did efficiency and synergy devolve into Pavlovian cliches for use in 360 "just tell me the damn bonus figure" reviews?  When did those and their contemporaneously valuable ilk get placed squarely within the ever-expanding box that those HBS kids are so good at thinking outside of?  Well, you know, at least in the exact same way that all the other HBS kids learned how to - in their case studies course, of course.

Is that an unalterable side-effect of all of this Google'ing that college educated masses use to ascertain a rapid defition to every question regardless of complexity?  Good concepts spread so quickly and so completely among those interested enough to evaluate their goodness that they are trampled, stretched, extended and finally over-used, all before they have a chance to ever be great concepts?  That's awfully efficient.  Google is a number you know, well - more a characterization or representation of a number.  At least those kids were Stanford MBAs; they think outside of a different, more colorful box.  It must be all the sun.

Good and great are just fine.  They are decent, much more professional then tremendous or his eccentric cousin stupendous.  I prefer apt; born out of a pragmatic resistance to being uniformly positive of any intellectual exercise.  The heart can never be wrong but the brain is a whole different story.  Apt has context, it possesses reserve, it can go away just as quickly as it showed up.  Apt is also contingently useful, nothing can be absolutely good or always the best tool.  Too much of a good thing, right?  No.  If it is too much it is no longer a good thing.  All things in moderation.  Yes, that's always a good idea.

I like the way the word wasps sounds but it has fairly limited application in my average day.  I really like the word word; something Boondock loved to mock me over.  I use the word fantastic with regularity; which would seem to call into question whether it is always apt.  Perhaps I just encounter that high of a frequency of things that successfully defy disbelief.  Commitment, that's a personal favorite.  Steady, constant, loyal - full of respect and willful adherence.  I don't have a commitment, I make a commitment.  I am not committed to something but rather commit myself to it.  See, those words, they can sneak up on you.

Word,

-I Heart Palindromes