Wednesday, August 14, 2013

"egregious" isn't a pleasant kind of word…

I would use "egregious" as a derogatory description of someone's conduct, even a falsifying of what is not true that is an "egregious" offense.

The subjective use of "egregious" lends itself to an expose about what may even be a criminal act, the breaking a trust that is implicit, perhaps in a government agency where breaches of the law took place. 

This descriptive word, "egregious," can related to a bias, perhaps in politics, or in writing about an event that is subjectively cited as an example of malfeasance, though in this 21st century of media prominence "egregious," is that which exposes what is also a subjective view of something that has taken place or will take place that is not going to bring a good result.  The use of "egregious" can lend itself to scandals and actions that are damaging to a person's reputation—in politics, something of a common occurrence in our permissive cultural scheme of interpreting what is right and what may no longer be wrong, that is if measured by substance of some sort.  

I believe this way of interpreting good and bad is an "egregious" perversion of a moral stance that is no longer immoral in the opinion of those who set the standards for what is good and bad.

Is it any wonder that growing up in this 21st century is more of a confusion—there are no rules to point toward a standard of behavior that may be considered as not "egregious."

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the "nadir" is a word that indicates…


When "nadir" is set out as a terminology, this word indicates a celestial sphere point that is directly opposite and vertical from an observer.

Though the use of this word, "nadir," is a descriptive of a relationship that has gone from good to bad, and can be downright unpleasant if the "nadir" slides to a bottoming out, even to mean a destruction of what was built, like an industry of some sort.  Yet, a "nadir" can be a way to indicate that something is on the way to extinction.

An example of this word, "nadir," can also be indicative of a diminution to zero, and is best used when a historian wants to indicate what may have occurred at a certain point in history.  The use of "nadir" can be a historian's subjective means of working in a particular slant, or the theme point to the article or book that is being written.  The use of "nadir" can influence the outcome of an account of history that may be inaccurate, yet in reporting about history, a historian takes a point of view, which is permissible as the work is an account of history, which is necessarily subjective.  Whereas, if a a historical account is in a textbook which is studied as part of a school curriculum, the use of "nadir" should be accurate.

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