This inability to contend with the most serious of issues facing us is one of the fundamental problems in Western society. We shy away from anything of substance, instead forever indulging in trivialities.

Whereas once cultivation of mind and manners were regarded as aspirational, they have been insulted into irrelevance.

As someone who has had all the classics jabs: polio, TB, MMR et cetera, I don't view myself as an 'anti-vaxxer'. Yet, according to the modern usage, I am.

Intellectuals are the worst for taking a long time to say nothing at all, such as by stringing together Latin and Greek derived words or jargon in place of actual communication.