though i didn’t sign up for it, i receive emails from a source called uncover words. in the middle of the middle of all the chaos and destruction of this country, this is the word that i received one day recently: addle.
i could not help but grimace at the timing.
addle: to confuse or muddle; to make unable to think clearly.
gee…i wonder who that could describe.
might it be people who are being tossed around as if they are at the end of a crack-the-whip – flung from one inane or juicy-gossipy topic to another in an effort to cover up the really important things that are taking place in this country? might it be people who are absolutely and completely averse to fact-checking, to looking up anything that might distort their cultist admiring view of the current administration? might it be people who have been propagandized into sheer ignorance by watching a news channel that is overtly dedicated to the pedestalizing of this same administration? might it be people whose base anger has made them into spitting, spewing hate mongers? might it be people who react before thinking, who yell before talking, who see only red even when it brings harm to their very own families, people in their own communities?
to addle.
addled.
lost.
a second word in that email was maunder. maunder is a verb. it means to talk in a rambling manner, to wander aimlessly in speech or thought.
wow. that seems contemporaneously and politically connected to “addled”.
to maunder.
the addled.
to maunder to the addled.
to make the lost more lost.
hmmm.
a third word that came on that email was this: effulgence.
effulgence is a noun that is defined as: a brilliant radiance; a shining forth.
an auspicious word.
using that in a sentence:
let’s hope there is an effulgence that might awaken the addled among us.
yes.
otherwise, we are destined for this country’s democracy to be entirely mauled by a maunderer with a dedication to depraved darkness – the opposite of effulgence – while the shockingly addled stand by, complicit.
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