Language matters
I think it was satirist Andrew Doyle who said on some podcast I was watching a year ago (or so) that the next culture war will be about language. How right he was, he (or she) who controls the language controls the discourse. In todays world more than ever its not just language that matters, even the words we use have been redefined (then re-redefined) making culture war battles interesting (yet almost meaningless) while the left wing of the political spectrum on the face of it have all the cultural capital on their side (corporations, Universities etc) the right wing have the numbers (Brexit didn't just come out of nowhere) But it does place us in a rather unusual situation. Historically, the Liberal left have been the ones raging against the machine, but we see little evidence of that machine being a right wing construct, in fact, the right wing has taken the place of the left in terms of being the "broad umbrella" when you consider how many feminists (normally a fierce...