Carl's Young's bureaucratese

I am wise enough not to write about things I hardly understand.

    But I just read " Blue Cross's mental health policy " by Carl Young.

    At first I thought I was reading a column by Carol Young . I believe

    this woman is on the editorial staff. "  Something very wrong here", I

    reflected. " No Projo columnist writes like THAT - the stuffy, atrocious

    deceptive BUREAUCRATIC style! " Then I looked more carefully at the name

    - " Carl ". I don't know the man. I know people often must play their

    assigned roles- even if it is obtuse bureaucrat. But I wonder if such a

    man could ever be FUN to talk to.

       The " responsible " bureaucrat in our society -almost without exception

    - loses the ability and even the will to utter  SIMPLE, TRUTHFUL

    sentences about their institution. Ultimately   he or she must lose

    the ability to to talk humanly about ANYTHING !


        Orwell was right about the obfuscation of the English language : it

    often hides petty, nasty motives !