Gnosticism and Socialism and the Discontent of Philosophy

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dirigibletrance   said: "I wish there were an Academy of English! French and German and Spanish have one, why not English?"

I answered: To safeguard our liberty, no doubt. The Academy of English would be an entirely leftwing-political-correctness organ, if it existed, and words such as "blind" or "Negro" or "Sodomy" would be decreed ungrammatical. The word "he" would be redefined to mean only male antecedents, and the word "they" would be declared the singular ...