Excellent piece offering astute and helpful perspective on the sneaky dynamics of cultural evolution. Real progress is always tediously slow… until it isn’t… and when change manifests, we always have to be prepared for a shit ton negative reactionary blowback from the small-minded, self-righteous haters.
(As a writer who very much appreciates superb manipulation of the mother tongue, I find myself compelled to acknowledge the wordplay of the highlighted sentence.)