The Cretin’s Guide to Understanding The Top Eleven Modern Buzzwords

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Let’s be honest: modern buzzwords are like intellectual fog machines with speakers that continually play Wagner. They sound complex, important, and thoughtful—until you try to figure out what they mean.

At their core, most of these words were invented to describe perfectly obvious ideas in the most convoluted way possible, often to intimidate, obscure, or dress up stupid ideas with many syllables and pretensions.

They are also rhetorical ‘take your ball and go home words’, magic words by which users think their use ends conversations and grants them victory.

This guide strips away the academic nonsense and gives you the real translation—what the word means versus what the person who invented it was trying to say.