A linguistic failure
Proceduralism is killing Britain
Process triumphs over principle and practicality in every aspect of life
Britain recently woke up to the startling revelation that Keir Starmer now knows what a woman is. How does he know? Because a court told him. According to Sir Keir “A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear. I actually welcome the judgment because I think it gives real clarity.” This change of heart could be read as an act of political opportunism in the face of fast-changing public attitudes, but the way the Prime Minister framed the shift was telling. It seemed to speak of a man who had outsourced his rationality and morality to the legal system, patiently waiting for “clarity” to descend from on high, rather than making his own mind up.
The whole piece is well worth reading as a useful interpretation of the managed cultural and political decline which seems to be the best we can hope for. Particularly interesting because of the implication that the problem cannot be tackled by more proceduralism, but if proceduralism is all we know…
This inability to think outside of numbers, preferring even the most synthetic sort of data over the best rational arguments, is now a defining feature of British institutional life. Every large organisation, from hospitals, to universities to government departments, is afflicted by this kind of thinking and language.
And it is precisely a linguistic failure. Despite our abysmal failure to foster STEM learning at school and university, we are even more deficient in the domain of the liberal arts. At school and increasingly at university too, those studying English, History, and Philosophy are trained to pass exams, fill out worksheets and apply pre-chewed, sub-sociological “critique” to the material they encounter. The bones of grammar, memorisation and facts are missing, and anyway lack the flesh of a wide reading of classic sources and texts. Absent these fundamentals, it is little wonder that the arts of classical logic and rhetoric have fallen into total abeyance.
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-linguistic-failure.html
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