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93something they are not, in an outrage-generating slogan of cynical Unspeak: so let’s all oppose the⦠CHARITIES TAX!</p> 94<p>Now, any level of tax “relief” on charitable donations is effectively a form of voluntary hypothecation that undermines the justice of the tax system as a whole, as even its defenders recognize. ((Witness <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-class-warfare-in-the-age-of-philanthropy-stop-bashing-rich-people-who-give-to-charity-7648269.html" title="Dominic Lawson: Class warfare in the age of philanthropy: Stop bashing rich people who give to charity - Dominic Lawson - Commentators - The Independent">Dominic Lawson’s weird column</a> in the <em>Independent</em> today, where he “explains” support for the plans as based on class envy: “It causes such people almost physical pain to think of the possible pleasure it gives to the rich when they tithe their income to charities of their choice, rather than in taxes to fund the state’s own choice.”)) The Conservative MP Richard Harrington <a href="http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/12135/tax_relief_row_is_not_about_charities_says_tory_mp" title="Tax relief row 'is not about charities' says Tory MP - Civil Society - Finance - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits">put the issue with admirable clarity</a>: “Is it acceptable, under any circumstances, for people obeying the law and earning money â a lot of money â to say ‘Iâm opting out of paying tax on my income’ because they are giving to charity? Should people be able to choose to support, say, the National Theatre, the opera and Christian Aid, while choosing not to supp
94ort the National Health Service, education and social services?”</p> 95<p>This sounds like a respectable Labour position, doesn’t it? Yet under its current leader, the gorm-challenged ((This is a kinder way, I think, to say “gormless”.)) Ed Miliband, Labour has opportunistically branded the proposals as the CHARITIES TAX, even though what is proposed is not any extra tax on charities, but rather a reduction in the money handed back to the rich as a reward for demonstrating their “philanthropy”. It is risibly inconsistent of Labour to oppose this while also opposing the Conservatives’ tax cut for the rich from 50% to 45%. To cover up the inconsistency, they simply slap a shiny new Unspeak label over what they are opposing this time, and hope no one will notice. </p> 96<p>CHARITIES TAX is certainly a colourful specimen in its headline-chasing hucksterism, but we should also be careful about the use of the term “philanthropist” itself in such arguments. It implies that only those who have acquired lots of wealth and then disgorge it to carefully selected institutions can truly love their fellow humans, and it further implies that actually paying tax so that all members of your society might benefit is not <em>philanthropic</em> (or even charitable) at all. If some people are happy to describe themselves as “philanthropists” in this sense, media reports probably shouldn’t endorse the connotation of purchased virtue.</p> 97 98<p style="float: right"><a class="square" href="https://unspeak.net/charities-tax/#comments"><em>5</em></a></p><br /> 99 100</div><!--end post--> 101 102<div class="post"> 103<h2><a href="https://unspeak.net/is/" rel="bookmark" title="Is">Is</a></h2> 104<h3><p>It depends on what the meaning of “is” is</p> 105</h3> 106<p class="postinfo">February 21, 2012 <span class="comlinks"><a href="https://unspeak.net/is/#comments">15 comments</a></span><span class="edit"></span></p> 107<p>Can one word-change destroy a joke? I only ask because <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/17/waiting-sunsrise-william-boyd-review" title="Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd â review | Books | The Guardian">I reviewed William Boyd’s latest novel</a>, <em>Waiting for Sunrise</em>, in last Saturday’s <em>Guardian</em>. (SPOILER: I didn’t like it much!) At one point, I wrote:</p> 108<blockquote><p>Many sentences could have done with extra care: early on, Lysander is seen “staring at a flowerbed in a fearful quandary”, which seems an unwise place to put a flowerbed.</p></blockquote> 109<p>But at some point during the editing process, my “seems” was changed to an “is”, resulting in the following version of the sentence being printed:</p> 110<blockquote><p>Many sentences could have done with extra care: early on, Lysander is seen “staring at a flowerbed in a fearful quandary”, which is an unwise place to put a flowerbed.</p></blockquote> 111<p>Personally I feel sad about this “is”. It sounds like I am a pompous pedantic dullard making grand claims to horticultural expertise. You may well think that I am a pompous pedantic dullard, readers, but I don’t actually think I am any good at garden-planning in urban spaces. Maybe it was a poor joke in the first place? But, you know, one poor joke can still be funnier than another. So I am going to put the question to the stern test of blog democracy, or <em>blogcracy</em>. Which word do you think makes the sentence funnier, “seems” or “is”? Please describe your reasons in the comments. Thanks for your “input”!</p> 112<p>Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.</p> 113 114<p style="float: right"><a class="square" href="https://unspeak.net/is/#comments"><em>15</em></a></p><br /> 115 116</div><!--end post--> 117 118<div class="post"> 119<h2><a href="https://unspeak.net/private-sector-research-work/" rel="bookmark" title="Private-sector research work">Private-sector research work</a></h2> 120<h3><p>Nice work if you can get it</p> 121</h3> 122<p class="postinfo">January 10, 2012 <span class="comlinks">
122<a href="https://unspeak.net/private-sector-research-work/#comments">1 comment</a></span><span class="edit"></span></p> 123<p>Happy New Year, readers! I don’t know if this even qualifies as Unspeak because it’s such a breathtaking lie, but â if you can believe it â <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3699:" title="Bill Text - 112th Congress (2011-2012) - THOMAS (Library of Congress)">the “Research Works Act”,</a> currently before the US Congress, bestows the name <em>private-sector research work</em> on research that is publicly funded, ie <em>not</em> done by the “private sector”. What the “private sector” (or, <a href="http://unspeak.net/the-private-sector/" title="Unspeak » The private sector">as Ralph Nader prefers to call it</a>, the “corporate sector”) actually does is to get the reports of the publicly funded research for free, publish them, and then sell the publications back to public institutions at eye-wateringly venal prices. That’s <em>private-sector price-gouging work</em>, maybe, or <em>private-sector university-blood-sucking work</em>, but not, I think, <em>private-sector research work</em>. What kind of work have you very blatantly not done lately, readers? ((More at <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/50126-publishers-back-new-bill-to-ban-public-access-to-research.html" title="Publishers Back New Bill to Ban Public Access to Research">Publisher’s Weekly</a>. (Via <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/evgenymorozov/status/156765555154632704">Evgeny Morozov</a>.) ))</p> 124 125<p style="float: right"><a class="square" href="https://unspeak.net/private-sector-research-work/#comments"><em>1</em></a></p><br /> 126 127</div><!--end post--> 128 129<div class="post"> 130<h2><a href="https://unspeak.net/functionally-insane/" rel="bookmark" title="Functionally insane">Functionally insane</a></h2> 131<h3><p>Amis and madness redux</p> 132</h3> 133<p class="postinfo">November 18, 2011 <span class="comlinks"><a href="https://unspeak.net/functionally-insane/#comments">4 comments</a></span><span class="edit"></span></p> 134<p><a href="http://stevenpoole.net/blog/venus-delillo/"><img src="/images/vdl.jpg" style="float:right;margin-left:20px" alt="Venus DeLillo" /></a>Don DeLillo, one of the world’s greatest living writers, has a new short-story collection out. I <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/09/the-angel-esmeralda-delillo-review" title="The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo â review | Books | The Guardian">reviewed it here</a>; and Martin Amis <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/11/21/111121crbo_books_amis?currentPage=all" title="Don DeLillo’s “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories” : The New Yorker">reviewed it here</a>, gaily wasting the first 500 of his allotted words on a tedious and dubious theory about why when we “love” a writer’s work, that really means that “we love about half of it”.</p> 135<p>In obedience to his own ridiculous stricture, Amis proceeds to love about half the stories. What is revealing is what he says about the ones he doesn’t love. He complains that DeLillo “enters the void of the motiveless”, which can give us only “a rendering of the functionally insane â insanity being the sworn foe of the coherent”.</p> 136<p>The idiosyncratic views about “insanity” held by Martin Amis will be familiar to some unspeak.net old-timers, since this strange invocation of “the functionally insane” echoes what Amis, as a quondam expert on world-troubling horroristicality, proffered as his expert diagnosis of Mohammad Atta et al â that they were “<a href="http://unspeak.net/functioning-insanity/" title="Unspeak » Functioning insanity">possessed by just the right kind of functioning insanity</a>”. ((Previously in “Martin Amis”: <a href="/any-ethnicity/">Any ethnicity</a>; <a href="/hes-got-no-talent/">He’s got no talent</a>; <a href="/chuckleheaded/">Chuckleheaded</a>.))</p> 137<p>More importantly, though, Amis’s latest glib reference to (some kind of) “insanity” in DeLillo’s writing seems to me crassly to misunderstand what DeLillo is doing in literary terms. DeLillo is very deliberately writing about (among many other things) the ways in which people’s motivations can be opaque and mysterious, even to themselves. Particularly in the first story, “Creation”, about which Amis whines that “the readerâs naïve and no doubt vulgar curiosity […] goes ungratified”, the fact that the outbreak of the adulterous affair happens utterly without warning â even though the first-person narrator, describing events in the past tense, knows it was coming â is a brilliantly subtle formal way of representing the narrator’s present bafflement by his own past actions, and maybe in a way also his shame. But Amis dully insists that a motive must always be found in literature, even if it cannot be found in life: “Motive tends to provide coherence, and fiction needs things that cohere.” Maybe, if you are writing cartoons or Franzenesque soap operas.</p> 138<p>For Amis, it seems that people in literature are just to be dismissed as “insane” if their motivations are not spelled out in uppercase crayon so that he, the great Martin Amis, is able to understand them. I hope it doesn’t work like that for him in real life, or it would be terribly hard being Martin Amis, always surrounded by so many mad people.</p> 139 140<p style="float: right"><a class="square" href="https://unspeak.net/functionally-insane/#comments"><em>4</em></a></p><br /> 141 142</div><!--end post--> 143 144<div class="post"> 145<h2><a href="https://unspeak.net/education/" rel="bookmark" title="Education">Education</a></h2> 146<h3><p>is an important key, yes</p> 147</h3> 148<p class="postinfo">September 15, 2011 <span class="comlinks"><a href="https://unspeak.net/education/#comments">5 comments</a></span><span class="edit"></span></p> 149<p>The <em>Economist</em> <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21528449?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/freeforall" title="Free-for-all | The Economist">isn’t impressed with</a> <em>Intern Nation</em>, or any general worries about the increasing practice of making young people (at least those who can afford it) work for free, in times of sharply increasing youth unemployment.</p> 150<blockquote><p>But forcing employers to provide pay and benefits and comply with lots of red tape is surely the quickest way to put them off, thereby depriving young people of an early experience of the future of work.</p></blockquote> 151<p>The future of work is… unpaid?</p> 152<blockquote><p>After all, what are those serial interns doing but learning about serial mastery?</p></blockquote> 153<p>They are being trained to compose Schoenbergian string quartets? Excellent!</p> 154<p>But the best part comes last:</p> 155<blockquote><p>Many people are outrageously exploited at work, but interns are not among them. After all, they are getting a free education, something that few universities provide these days.</p></blockquote> 156<p>
156Thus is the ideal of <em>education</em> shrunk in the philistine mind of the market fanatic to something like “induction into the low-grade activities of a specific job, several times”. And young people are getting this for <em>free</em> from the humanitarian philanthropists at companies that offer internships. ((They’re not actually getting it “free”, of course, once you take into account the opportunity cost of working for no pay.)) After meditating a while on this happy news about what <em>education</em> now means, I deduce courageously that we should immediately close down all the universities. After all, they are expensive, and can be teaching nothing but sophistry and illusion.</p> 157 158<p style="float: right"><a class="square" href="https://unspeak.net/education/#comments"><em>5</em></a></p><br /> 159 160</div><!--end post--> 161 162<div class="post"> 163<h2><a href="https://unspeak.net/social-fightback/" rel="bookmark" title="Social fightback">Social fightback</a></h2> 164<h3><p>When society attacks</p> 165</h3> 166<p class="postinfo">August 30, 2011 <span class="comlinks"><a href="https://unspeak.net/social-fightback/#comments">8 comments</a></span><span class="edit"></span></p> 167<p>In the wake of the great English smartphone riots, gelatine-fizzog’d brayer David Cameron <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/15/david-cameron-riots-broken-society" title="">concocted</a> a splendidly vivid mixed metaphor:</p> 168<blockquote><p>Social problems that have been festering for decades have exploded in our face</p></blockquote> 169<p>Or is that a mixed metaphor? Perhaps the explosion was one of pus, the pus having built up in the <em>festering</em> wound, rather than an orange petroleum-fuelled explosion of the sort that everything makes in movies when you blow it up, including tanks of water and trees? Meanwhile, the idea that “our face” is singular, that the whole of society shares one face, is rather horrific. (Especially if that face is David Cameron’s.) </p> 170<p>Most interesting, perhaps, was Cameron’s glib incitement of a <em>social fightback</em>, invoking the chaotic vigilante justice by underdogs-who-just-can’t-take-it-any-more of <em>fightback</em>, while simultaneously clawing back that plainly irresponsible suggestion with the rhetorically softening epithet <em>social</em>. (That Cameron wants to start a massive <em>fightback</em> against “ideas”, rather than, say, a reasoned argument, is depressingly revealing.) “Fightback” is also a helpful close cousin to the populist and antilegal concept of <em>payback</em>, as in <a href="http://www.communitypayback.com/">community payback</a> and Nick Clegg’s hilarious proposal for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/16/nick-clegg-riot-payback">riot payback</a>. Perhaps if everyone who joined up to the <em>social fightback</em> that Cameron incited did so while wearing a full-faced David Cameron mask and a gimp outfit, that would “send” the right “message”. </p> 171<p>Meanwhile, in other Unspeak-related developments: there is a new website called <a href="http://newswordy.com" title="Newswordy: Word of the day">newswordy</a>, which picks a topical word, giving current citations from news or Twitter, and gives a short definition of it. It sometimes confuses parts of speech (“vindication” is said to mean “to clear”), and makes no attempt at analysis whatsoever, prompting one to wonder what exactly the point is. It’s beautifully designed, though, isn’t it?</p> 172<p>In vocabulary news, the new COED <a href="http://blog.oup.com/2011/08/concise/" title="OUPblog » Blog Archive » Defining our language for 100 years">includes the words</a> <em>sexting</em> and <em>cyberbullying</em>, while <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/21/endangered-words-collins-dictionary" title="Dictionary compilers create endangered words list | Books | The Guardian">Collins has decided</a> that words including <em>aerodrome</em> and <em>supererogate</em> are defunct. I call on the Unspeak⢠Community⢠to use them daily from now on.</p> 173<p>Lastly, from the <em>LRB</em>
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