{"id":2756,"date":"2011-06-14T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T01:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2011-06-14T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T02:59:35","slug":"gallimaufry-with-forbidden-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry with Forbidden Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 According to John Rentoul of the British newspaper The Independent<\/em>, these phrases should be banned due to overuse<\/a>. He tips his hat to George Orwell, all well and good, but someone in the comments notes that the Irish satirist Brian O’Nolan<\/a> also eviscerated bureaucratese in his day, which was even earlier.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs” is a staple of introductory psychology classes. But Gary Lachman (a\/k\/a Gary Valentine of Blondie,<\/a> etc.) at The Daily Grail <\/em>notes that it can take some odd twists in the world of the esoteric: “Maslow\u2019s vision of a kind of Brahmin caste of ‘self-actualizers,’ uninterested in the kind of material gratification that most people desire, and oriented toward more ‘spiritual’ concerns, is a recurring fantasy in the world of occult politics.” Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 If you have a book proposal in mind, does it include zombies? Get on the zombie bandwagon<\/a>! Consider this one: “<\/a>Christ, mythras [sic], and Osiris\u00a0as zombie archetypes \u2013 a new spirituality for a new age\u2026”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Odd manners of dying in sixteenth-century England<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 According to John Rentoul of the British newspaper The Independent, these phrases should be banned due to overuse. He tips his hat to George Orwell, all well and good, but someone in the comments notes that the Irish satirist Brian O’Nolan also eviscerated bureaucratese in his day, which was even earlier. \u2022 Abraham Maslow’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,39,101,22,12],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-occultism","tag-psychology","tag-weirdness","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Is","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":883,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=883","url_meta":{"origin":2756,"position":0},"title":"Mars and Venus Are in Love","author":"Chas S. 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