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Make definitions great again. Wednesday, October 26, 2022.

Introduction. There's a big difference between a word or phrase used in a specific way by

someone who is careful to define what he does and does not mean by it, on the one hand,

and someone who gets clobbered by a word or phrase for its connotative value alone.

The former contributes to actual political debate, advancing that debate, while the latter

just uses words as cudgles. When we do not define carefully, whenever we declare ourselves

to be, quote unquote, against something, we are simply announcing to the world that we

are against whatever our internal emotional weather is like, whenever we hear that particular

thing referred to. We tend to confound the concepts of truth and emotional safety. So

as we head into a season of robust debate and brickbat throwing, I think I would be

well advised to share with you all how I am defining my terms. What do I mean when

I haul out some of these? Well, most of these definitions have a deadly serious point

to them, as you can tell by the really earnest look on my face. A few of them I confess

are a bit frallicky. I mean, what's a salad without a few crassons or bacon bits? A brief

glossary. Abortion. The blood sacrament of the left. America. A much easier target

than Christianity, and therefore the preliminary target. Atheism. The belief that man is God,

a God who eventually and invariably takes incarnational shape in the form of the state.

Big Eva. The three self-church in its American form. Big tech. Lords who walk the earth gracing

us with their algorithms and suggested purchases. Curators of what we really meant to say. Big

ed. The consortium of colleges and universities in America that trained all the people who

are destroying the country. Bill of Rights. Because the anti-federalists, like Patrick

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