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In case you hadn't realized it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know what you're talking about? Or believed strongly in what you're like, saying? Invisible question mark and parenthetical you knows and you know what I'm sayings. I've been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences. Even when those our sentences aren't like, questions?
Declarative sentences so called because they used to like you know declare things to be true, OK? As supposed to other things that are like TOTALLY you know, NOT? They've been infected by this tragically cool and totally hip interrogative tone? As if I'm saying don't think I'm a nerd just because I've like noticed this OK? I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions I'm just like inviting you to join me on the bandwagon of my own uncertainty?
What has happened to our conviction? Where are the limbs out on which we want walked? Have you been like chopped down with the rest of the rain forest? You know? Or do we have like nothing to say? Has society just become so feel with this conflicting feelings of ngeeehh there? Then we just planned to the point when where the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since you know, a long time ago!
So I implore you, I entreat you, and I challenge you. To speak with conviction. To say what you believed in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of a bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply "QUESTION" authority. You get to speak with it, too.
By Danling:
In case you hadn't noticed,
it has somehow become uncool
to sound like you know what you're talking about?
Or believe strongly in what you're saying?
Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you know?)'s
have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences?
Even when those sentences aren't, like, questions? You know?
Declarative sentences - so-called
because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true
as opposed to other things which were, like, not -
have been infected by a totally hip
and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know?
Like, don't think I'm uncool just because I've noticed this;
this is just like the word on the street, you know?
It's like what I've heard?
I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay?
I'm just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty?
What has happened to our conviction?
Where are the limbs out on which we once walked?
Have they been, like, chopped down
with the rest of the rain forest?
Or do we have, like, nothing to say?
Has society become so, like, totally . . .
I mean absolutely . . . You know?
That we've just gotten to the point where it's just, like . . .
whatever!
And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness
is just a clever sort of . . . thing
to disguise the fact that we've become
the most aggressively inarticulate generation
to come along since . . .
you know, a long, long time ago!
I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you,
I challenge you: To speak with conviction.
To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks
the determination with which you believe it.
Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker,
it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY.
You have to speak with it, too.