The English speaking people have become ever stupider as the superstition that short sentences of short words were the real, right way to speak and write as handed down by the elites took control of English curricula and, from the idiots who bought that, into the popular what-thus-passes-as-culture. The idea being, as handed down by phony experts who were grammatically incompetent poseurs, that the plebs were too stupid to learn how to read long sentences of the kind that are necessary to express complex thoughts.
I have a higher opinion of the Common Person than they do. If simplemindedness were going to solve our problems it would have happened by now. If snobbery among the college-credentialed were going to, it would have happened even earlier.
It's one of my slogans for use when people accuse me of being an elitist, I'm such an elitist that I won't be satisfied till everyone is elite. And that ain't what the so-called elite imagines it to be. It's not them.
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