Absolutely. Would give this 10 upvotes if I could and would have said it myself if you had already done so. Also very relevant is the essay "Ideology, Power, an

Absolutely. Would give this 10 upvotes if I could and would have said it myself if you had already done so. Also very relevant is the essay "Ideology, Power, and Linguistic Theory"[1] by linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum (2004). I believe the spiritual predecessor of all of these to be in many ways Schopenhauer's (1891) essay "On Style"[2] Both are short, readable, and nutritious. :) [1] https://people.ucsc.edu/~pullum/MLA2004.pdf https://people.ucsc.edu/~pullum/MLA2004.pdf [2] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/lit/chapter2.html https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/lit/cha...