Having been assaulted by the word ‘progressive’ in my Sunday newspaper, I was reminded that just about everything starting with ‘pro’ is bad, e.g. proactive, problem, etc. So what about some alternatives? Wouldn’t it be nice if politicians and PR characters admitted they were being preactive? In other words, spotting trouble early enough to get alibis in place. And wouldn’t it be nice if they could precrastinate – i.e. do something immediately to get it out of the way instead of wasting years talking about it.
Another ‘pre’ that occurred to me is precycled as a description for something that’s brand new or in regular use. And going back to the start of this rant, what would pregressive politics be? Politics without all the spin? Like the Masters of the World could keep that up for very long!
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