Here you will find new
words (or redefinitions of words) that should be in the common American
English lexicon.
Supression States
Sadate
The Busy Disease
Corporate Nihilism
Neo-Hip
TeeVee
Instatown
Pretentiometer
Cubehead
Divorsary
Borocrat
Ghetti Bourgeois
Corporatia
Vapidometer
Supression States
Unlike the Free States (prev. "blue" states), where residents feel the right to exercise free speech, freedom of religion, freedom from slavery, freedom of choice, and free love; in the Suppression States (prev. "red" states) residents must subvert desires, believe what they see on TeeVee, conform to stereotypical imagery, behave right, and resist any original urges. Ya better keep getting up early, mowing your lawn, driving to work, shopping, talking bout the weather, and plucking your eyebrows...because Thought Crime prosecution is coming soon to a Suppression State near you.
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Sadate
To subdue, using painful and punishing (sadistic) means, such as pepper spray; as opposed to calming means, such as ecstasy mist, which might encourage pleasure-seeking outlaws to engage in peaceful protest and free speech.
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The Busy Disease
How've you been? Busy! It's the catchphrase du jour, the acceptable affliction, the encompassing excuse for not living fully. The Busy Disease makes you hurry, scurry, and worry, and who can blame you? What are we busy doing? Consuming, commuting, grooming, fast-fooding, zooming, vroooooming! Oh, we do wish we had time to be pleasant and considerate, let alone happy, but busyness is a badge of honor. Just this past week I heard "Busy" as the reason family and friends did not have time for a love life, nutritious meals, exercise, vacation, recreation, reading a book, or making art. This is the reason we are elbowed at Berkeley Bowl and yelled insults while parallel parking during the holiday "shopping" season.
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Corporate Nihilism
Corporate Insanity
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Corporate Romanticism
Doing the same thing over and over and HOPING for different results.
Corporate Realism
Admiting that the result will be unchanged, but doing the thing anyway.
Corporate Existentialism
Wondering whether the result is real.
Corporate nihilism
Admitting that nothing is going to make a difference anyway, so doing nothing. [This is the normal state of being and action in Corporatia.]
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Neo-Hip
Folks of any age who still practice peace, love, non-hypocrisy, and care of the environment, but with less hair and drugs.
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TeeVee
A device for subjugating the population. Instills in viewers the sense of shared memory and a sense of community, where none exists. Alters brain patterns in viewers, with side-effects such as belief in propaganda, overactive desire to work in Corporatia in order to afford outrageously priced personal automobile that "reflects personal style".
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Instatown
Homogenous subdivisions off a strip street lined by McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Starbucks, Border's Books, and Office Depot. Identical instatowns are popping up all across America.
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Pretentiometer
Measures the level of pretentiousness in a person. It can register spikes in pretentiousness when the following phrases are uttered:
"... at the present moment in time ..."
rather than "now", or
"...handed it to Tom and myself..."
rather than "to Tom and me" since "me" is the object of the verb, and not the reflexive pronoun "myself", which is used in this case: "I handed it to myself",or, "I shot myself".
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Cubehead
1. One who is addicted to GameCube, or any other computer-based game system. I also applies to people addicted to the computer or Internet in general.
2. A state of being, a condition of the mind. e.g. "Wow, I've been at the computer all day -- now I've got CubeHead!"
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Divorsary
n. The aniversary of a divorce. Unlucky souls may have multiple Divorsary dates each year.
e.g. "I'm sorry I can't think straight, today is my 8th Divorsary."
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Borocrat
One who organizes in the most boring way possible; an adherent to bureaucracy for the sake of order, eschewing art and interest.
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Ghetti Bourgeois
One who consumes goods designed to afford the appearance of success, but whose place of shopping is in an unsuccessful neighborhood and who's consumption only enhances "Da Man".
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Corporatia
The workscape owned, governed, and operated by Corporate America. As opposed to the "Free Market". Corporatia is supported by excessive privilege from government and government officials, by special tax havens, special laws, all of which do not apply to small and medium sized businesses. Lately Corporatia has increasingly become Globalized, exported, outsourced, and off-shored.
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Vapidometer
n. Measures the level of vapidity in a person. Large values obtain when a person declares favorite activities to include shopping or watching TeeVee.
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The Neoconservatives
(NeoCons) have mastered the Orwellian concept of
doublespeak for manipulation of the masses. Here we document
their
word meanings and usage.
Conservative
Low-Price Leader
No Child Left Behind
Culture of Life
Irrelevance
Fear of Fear
Fear
Liberal
Bravery
Mandate
Hero
Conservative
One who recklessly squanders money and resources for personal short-term benefit in order to conserve the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed.
Conservatives favor spending billions on war toys, risky investments, and oil extraction while depleting the ozone, forests, and retirement pensions.
Conservatives rightly deride radicals who strive to preserve the environment and the budget surplus created by the "liberal" Clinton administration.
Conservatives have created an $8 trillion national debt. Keep on conserving!
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Low-Price Leader
Greedy thief amassing billions by the sweat of the poor and suffering. (The Waltons of Wal-Mart are worth $18.4 billion each. Young Chinese factory sweatshoppers work day and night for $3 a day.)
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No Child Left Behind
A law that ensures that all children in the public school system are not "left behind" when the military recruiters need to call all children at their homes and personal cell phones to offer them exciting opportunities in education such as military duty in Iraq. No child will be left behind when the boot camp bus leaves!
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Culture of Life
A society that promotes death for victims poor and young (war); poor and non-white (death penalty); and poor and ignorant (nicotine); while exhaulting life for the microscopic, brain dead, and other varietals of photo opportunities.
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Irrelevance
More relevant than ever, so we'll pretend it doesn't exist.
e.g. "Because we want to preemptively invade a sovereign nation, and the U.N. is charged with preventing rouge nations from staging preemptive attacks, the U.N. now faces irrelevance."
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Fear of Fear
Fear Simplex -- simple fear.
Fear Complex -- compound fear; fear of fear.
Prediction of future fear is known as Fear Complex.
Fear Complex, can be replaced by Fear Simplex, i.e. plain old gut-wrenching Fear, such as Fear of the Dentist. Fear of Terrorists is mostly Fear Complex, since most terrorist acts don't harm that many people, statistically, but elict fear in vast numbers of people -- hence Fear of Fear, or Fear Complex. Fear of *next* year's Flu viri is Fear of Fear, because the Flu elicts a fear *this* year, hence worrying about *next* year's Flu is future fear of a fearful state.
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Fear
a. the baseline emotional state serving as the barometer for majority opinion. b. the main topic of newsworthy interest (recently replacing sex, as in "fear sells!") c. the impetus for the newly popularized greeting "How scared are you?" (replacing "How are you?"), the socially acceptable response to which is, "I'm greatly scared, how scared are you?" or "I'm fearfully fine."
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Liberal
(n) -- a person or group intent on destroying the values held dear by the majority. Liberal traits may include, but are not limited to, violence, laziness, and an unkempt appearance. (alt. spelling: librul) [archaic] -- a left-winger with loose pockets. [even more archaic] -- an open-minded advocate of individual rights.
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Bravery
The character attributed posthumously to kids who find themselves stuck in the middle of heavy gunfire in Iraq, wishing they were back in the green green hills of Iowa o jesus just make it stop just make it stop I want my momma I'm too young to die.
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Mandate
Justification for ramming divisive agenda past narrowly divided populace, using the thinnest of majorities as proof.
[obsolete/archaic] A desire by an overwhelming majority of the populace to enact a platform by voting for a representative who espouses that platform.
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Hero
Hero (n): One who dies unwittingly in tragic circumstances.
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Words that are patently
silly, but nonetheless deserve to be in the lexicon.
Crapula
Poeto Voce
Subjectify
Open Source Relationship
Metaphoria
Acronymize
Fauxmercial
Fogbow
Texas Tall Taler
Monogatrois
Doppelbanger
Crapula
The crap that passes for curicula.
Rather than challenging topics, or activities that students are actually interested in, bureaucratized schools allow the most vapid and industrialist-serving curicula that continually pound in a sense of senselessness.
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Poeto Voce
Said in "Poetry Voice" - overly slow, breathy, and emphasized. Unnatural cadence. Lugubrious.
Also,
- Sotto poeto voce -- very quiet poetry voice
- Respiro poeto voce -- very breathy poetry voice
- Legatto respiro poeto voce -- very slow, breathy poetry voice
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Subjectify
Antonym of Objectify -- "When you blog about me, I feel so subjectified."
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Open Source Relationship
An agreement, among computer geek couples, to be "cool" about cyber-rendezvous.
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Metaphoria
The state of musing about how one's life is a fairy tale.
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Acronymize
[vt; vi] To reduce a perfectly acceptable title or phrase into an acronym. e.g "Office of Academic Freedom" become OAF. Generally thought to be best avoided in most cases, certainly those not in extensive use, or those whose original phrasing was selected for it's poetic or prosaic beauty or clarity. Especially egregious are acronyms that have been "Reverse Acronymized", or cooked up from acronyms that happen to be words, but whose constituent words are contrived at best. "Compound Acronymizing" is practiced by techie geeks, e.g. JXML
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Fauxmercial
A commercial that is a farce.
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Fogbow
The beautiful combination of shades of gray one sees in fog-bound San Francisco (c.f. Rainbow)
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Texas Tall Taler
(phrase) Texas Tall Tale, as in "Well, you know old George Bush -- He's a Texas Tall Tale Teller". Alternatively, one who is a Texas Tall Taler -- as in "Well, Dubya is a Texas Tall Taler, just like his pappy, George H.W. Bush."
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Monogatrois
(n) The exclusive threesome
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Doppelbanger
One's faraway "outa this world" phone-fuck
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