Thanks for that great David Bentley Hart link. I see multiple trends going on in writing. Academic "STEM" writing is getting impenetrable, not because the auth

Thanks for that great David Bentley Hart link. I see multiple trends going on in writing. Academic "STEM" writing is getting impenetrable, not because the authors are obscuritan, but to satisfy non-functional powers; to conform to keywords, generate REF impact factors and whatnot. At the same time science journalism is pulling the other way. In an effort to dumb things down to a folksy and breathless "hey, isn't that amazing!", it ends up just wrong. In both cases the stylish tail is wagging the dog. What I read here from Bentley is something else, anticipating the corporate grey goo of soulless, value-free - "voices utterly anonymous in their monotonous ordinariness." It's a kind of linguistic self-harm. To me, that writing is not merely passive, it's actively cowardly. I've read a lot of 'perfect' resignation letters sent around email by colleagues; "I have worked for Company X for the past Y years during which time I've had the pleasure of working alongside all of you. Thank you for your wonderful support I have received over the years...." yada yada But everyone knows, just two weeks ago there was genuine concern that person might just go postal with a Samurai sword in the C-suite. What energy it must take to be that insincere to oneself. And at what cost to your soul? And after all that, it's kinda insulting to everyone too. Such corruption of words.