WORDS OF WISDOM

The great English playwright and social philosopher George Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are conspiracies against the common folk. He meant that those who belong to

elite trades - BANKERS, People who work in Public Relations and Advertising, people who write ‘funding applications, physicians, lawyers, teachers, and scientists BROADCASTERS - protect their special status by creating vocabularies that are incomprehensible to the general public.

This process prevents outsiders from understanding what the profession is doing and why - and protects the insiders from close examination and criticism. Professions, in other words, build forbidding walls of technical gobbledegook over which the prying and alien eye cannot see.

I added a few. Mr S counds like a cool guy..... I AGREE with his observations.

Ultimately it seems the biggest threat to 'professionals' is not the clever big words

but the small and simple ones like

BOLLOCKS