{"id":2234,"date":"2020-04-07T09:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2024-10-03T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:28:55","slug":"cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"Clich\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clich\u00e9s, among other things, is destroying our language and us, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/articles-coded\/the-war-on-words\">Adbusters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clich\u00e9s are not only unoriginal; they are dangerous. Clich\u00e9 is the thoughtless regurgitation of received ideas. To that end, clich\u00e9 is among the ultimate instruments of ideology&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By \u201csimply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Orwell\">Orwell<\/a> wrote, clich\u00e9s can \u201cconstruct your sentences for you \u2014 even think your thoughts for you.\u201d A language that is reduced to clich\u00e9d, bumper-sticker slogans is not the equal of thought \u2014 it is its pure, unmitigated opposite. And an unthinking person is the ideal vessel for corrosive, wrongheaded \u2014 and, yes, dangerous \u2014 ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The thoughtless regurgitation of received ideas&#8230; ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}