Canceling The Word "The"!

Theatre of the Absurd: 

...The plays focus largely on ideas of existentialism and express what happens when human existence lacks meaning or purpose and communication breaks down. The structure of the plays is typically a round shape, with the finishing point the same as the starting point. Logical construction and argument give way to irrational and illogical speech and to the ultimate conclusion—silence....

We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 27, 2023

Please enjoy the satiric video below:

Related reading: Associated Press no longer includes ‘the French’ as example of banned phrase after internet backlash. 

If space aliens are watching us from above, they must be laughing themselves silly at the Third Planet's "Wokeness."

Back in the USSR

Silverfiddle Rant!

Ed West has made the provocative claim that the United States is coming to resemble the old Soviet Union in its last days, and that America is becoming its own worst enemy.

West explores many similarities, including...

* Declining life expectancy

* Demographic decline caused by substance abuse

* Decline of wages, religion and childbirth

He also blames neo-progressivism, which brings with it a hostility to free speech and free thought, along with a Soviet-style rigid adherence to dogma...

Indeed, in its hostility to freedom of speech, its Manichean worldview, its suspicion that its opponents are fascists, and the belief that politics should be inserted into everything — from science to children’s books — it is closer to the totalitarian tradition. American progressivism is not communism, obviously, anymore than its opponents are Nazis; the market is perfectly capable of achieving most progressive goals, and America has become more culturally Left-wing as Right-wing economic policies have dominated, globalisation being the common theme that links the two.

Add in a failed Afghanistan invasion and social tribal warfare in the US, where some tribes enjoy official government favor, and it doesn't look good.

Please read the essay and tell us, what say you?