When you write a lot, it puts words where you are able to get them without fumbling for them or relying on what other people say to describe what you're thinking. Sometimes the consequences of what you're writing are great and sometimes they're not; when they are, if you have spent a lot of time using language, you will be able to concentrate on what you're trying to say instead of how to say it.
Being able to write doesn't make everyone agree with you all the time; what it does is give you ownership of your opinion. Having ownership of your opinion reduces the feeling that you need to be phalanxed by people who agree with you, or that you need to flatter, manipulate or coerce other people to concur.
Code for the word concur, and nothing else:
It's also not really code; it's a reference.
If I had wanted to date Leonardo DiCaprio, I could have done that years ago. Why is anyone having that conversation?
I haven't seen this movie for years and never thought about it before; would the scene have been considered as funny if the patient were white? It's not actually a funny situation, is it? Most movies are directed at a white audience; was the patient being black a calculation to make the gravity of someone being in charge who doesn't know what he's doing seem less severe, to white people?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, May 1, 2016 @ 4:15 p.m.
