Month: December 2016
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The Hyperbole of Internet-Speak
Parents with young children up to 25 years old can not keep up with the the hyperbolic vocabularies, impressions, exaggerations that being used and changed in an almost daily bases. “‘Literally dying’ has become, like, the new LOL,” she said, referring to the acronym for “laugh out loud,” which, of course, if you know literally…
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Simple life Was Only Necessary
Through much of human history, frugal simplicity was not a choice but a necessity – and since necessary, it was also deemed a moral virtue. But with the advent of industrial capitalism and a consumer society, a system arose that was committed to relentless growth, and with it grew a population (aka ‘the market’) that…