Oppobrium? Latifundium? Bellicose? Effete? Really? What the fuck is wrong with these people. These words are like paragraphs apart
Edit: just read the term “professional-cum-technocratic ethos” this shit is not normal and the author should be ashamed
I was listening to a podcast and they hit me with “syncretic murder cult” and “hagiography” within minutes of each other.
Based on what I remember looking up a week ago:
Syncretic - a politics or religion that is composed of disparate sources mixed together.
Hagiography - a biography of a saint or a savior figure.
Those are both important words that admittedly I spent much of my life skimming over, just getting the vibe.
Hagiography is not uncommonly used sarcastically to describe a fawning biography.
Those ones are literally just normal, you’d have to just not have engaged with political-historical discourse at all in English to not have heard hagiography used to insult mainstream presidential retrospective articles at the very least.
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My first assumption on hagiography was the study of eating