I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism? One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one’s own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase—some jackboot, Achilles’ heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse—into the dustbin where it belongs.
Six Senses Yao Noi
エスクワイア(パク・ミヒョン)
気づきました 愛は虹色なんだと
いろんな感情が 愛を輝かせてくれる
赤は情熱 オレンジは温かさ 黄色は喜び
緑は安らぎ 青は信頼 藍色は深さ 紫は神秘
始まりは きっと 赤でした
時を重ねるうちに 色が変わっていった
それでも愛が消えないことに 気づかなかったのです 赤から 安らぎを感じられるオレンジに 変化した
徐々に別の色も加わって 美しく輝いていたのに
僕はそれを 愛が冷めたと思ってました
Kenya Prisons Service (KPS)
豊後森機関庫跡(長谷川和春)
David Goldman (CNN)
Gas prices are well above $4, ceasefire negotiations are on ice and airlines are warning that they’re running out of jet fuel. So, it sure seems odd that stocks are at record highs.
Blame CNN. No, really. Not for world events or the machinations of the markets, but for the perception that those two things are connected.
CNN (and the media as a whole) has forever linked current events with the performance of the stock market — it’s right there in a little “Dow” bug at the bottom of the screen during live news coverage.
That’s why we often view the stock market as a mirror. But the market isn’t a mirror; it’s a prediction engine.
Stock fluctuations are barometers for how a vast array of information — robust profit performance, a CEO gets sick, a competitor builds a better product, AI threatens an entire line of business — changes the perceived value of a particular company’s shares and its long-term earnings potential.
Once Wall Street believes the ramifications of a big news event have been appropriately priced into a stock, it moves onto the next thing – typically faster than Main Street has.
Mesopotamian Marshes
Timur’s empire
Eswatini
Group of 77
The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations (UN) is a coalition of developing countries, designed to promote its members’ collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations.: 79 The group consists of a diverse set of states with a common South-South ideology. There were 77 founding members of the organization headquartered in Geneva, but it has since expanded to 134 member countries.
The Group of 77 lists China as one of its members. The Chinese government provides consistent political support to the G77 and has made financial contributions to the Group, but it does not consider itself to be a member. As a result, official statements of the G77 are delivered in the name of The Group of 77 and China or G77+China.







