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There is hardly a sentence in English that is not in some sense polysemic, with a range of possible interpretations.

As though simplicity, directness and 'clarity' in this sense were coterminous.

such perorations are like the incantation of a devotional prayer: they call down the mercies of a remote techno-deity in order to ritually cleanse the grubbier aspirations of the business-strategizing, keynote-speaking class

a weirdly totalizing kind of centrism: keep your political ideas as anodyne as your business aphorisms

since reality is never Manichean enough, fables have to do the requisite ideological heavy lifting