Writing in The Critic, Dalrymple dissects the almost meaningless verbiage of corporate and political language, prompted by a vacuous motivational poster outside his hotel room in France.
Does such verbiage matter? It adds to the impression that we are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit. It emasculates us because we are powerless to reply or even to demand an explanation. Intelligent people have spent hours devising such cunning bilge.