It's not the great one.

You're speaking with the juices one.

Hello, I'm Granite, the astronaut of Restri.

I don't like words that hide the truth.

I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms or euphemistic language.

And American English is loaded with euphemisms

because Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality.

Americans have trouble facing the truth. So they invent a kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it.

And it gets worse with every generation. For some reason, it just keeps getting worse. I'll give you an example of that.

There's a condition in combat, most people know about it.

It's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and maximum can't take any more input.

The nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap.

In the First World War, that condition was called Shell Shock.

Simple, honest, direct language.

Two syllables, Shell Shock.

Almost sounds like the guns themselves.

That was 70 years ago. almost sounds like the guns themselves.

That was 70 years ago.

Then a whole generation went by

and the Second World War came along.

The very same combat condition was called battle fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer

to say, doesn't seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell shock.

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