Editing one’s speech, thought, language or behavior… has become ‘activist-fashionable’ in our time. While there are a few features of this that have some degree of merit, ‘calling out’ behavior is easily captured and weaponized for the sake of ‘signalling virtue’.

What’s the improved position, then?

That we »actively negotiate relational features together, insightfully, playfully, with an eye toward the opportunities… rather than the indictments.

The key here is the mutual establishment of the relational manifold, »beyond language and declarative speech. The ‘dictation’ of the linguistic forms by some ‘satellite-critic’ that supervenes so generally over speech acts, possible speech acts, possible observes, possible victims and possible perpetrators is a disease, not a virtue!

Courtroom-mind is pernicious, contagious, and largely malignant … this nearly never results in the purported ‘transformations’ it appears, superficially, to be seeking…