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I have the body that I want,” Louie announces triumphantly in one episode. “That’s a thing people really covet, and it’s a hard thing to achieve and I did. I’m going to tell you how to have the body that you want. You just have to want a shitty body. That’s all it is. You have to want your own shitty, ugly, disgusting body.

Pat Robertson once said,
“It’s a long downward slide
That’ll lead to legalizing sex with ducks
If two men can stand side by side”

God, I hope he’s right
‘Cause if gay marriage becomes lawful
Gonna find myself a duck
And legally do
Something awful

(Source: songmeanings.net)

Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this frees a lot of gray matter for important pursuits like FarmVille and “Real Housewives.” But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness.