sincerity, a strange word | highimpactsex
i've been reading a lot of Thoughts and Opinions from many people lately and one of the terms that keeps popping up, especially in discussing a subset of video games (like Undertale), is sincerity. the idea behind sincerity is to describe a less ironic, more honest approach from the creators. if games are more like a dialog, then the conversation is more straightforward and less annoying to decipher. and i think that's a very tantalizing idea. unfortunately, i've been wondering if language is ever like that. i'm taking a lot of cues from this article by richard seymour. there, the writer argues how orwell's Politics and the English Language may not be up to snuff. orwell's main concern (and one shared by many leftists) is that clear language is needed. those damn theorists and politicians are too obfuscating. it is noteworthy that orwell brings up a "communist pamphlet" as an example of bad writing that " illustrate various of the mental vices from which we now suffer": he brings up dy
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