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“Lo, as X became more mainstream, so had its mentions taken on an increasingly memetic quality. X became a symbol of conformity to the capital’s bidding, a means to legitimize all sorts of viewpoints, even those inherently contradictory to the very principles of X itself. Pomp and pious displays of virtue and loyalty to the kingdom displaced honestly curious inquiry and communication of meaning, as the continued misuse of X had continuously diluted its true purpose to homeopathic levels of nothingness, while muddying the waters of understanding with the sludge of impressive-sounding words ringing hollow, devoid of the speaker’s understanding of their actual meaning or applicability.”
(This is an excerpt from the book Lo and Behold, X! )
My “X” was Lean, and then it briefly was Agile. Sometime around 2016 to 2017 something clicked and, after that, I would never be able to take such things seriously ever again.
