REVENGE of the 5TH:

When we develop a science, we create a Truth, which helps us to understand our World intersubjectively. Yet it is a long and steep road from scientific “discovery” and its consequent technological “development”; effectively, technology is “infused” with a science, (e.g. a Physics Engine) and even after the product has been mass-produced and distributed there is a hierarchy of understanding the technology itself. Modern technology develops in a manner that even its host organisms cannot claim to understand absolutely; it is essentially a lifeform, engaged in a symbiotic relationship with us, and at times it threatens to consume us entirely.

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While Orwell made a legitimate claim in insisting that idiomatic language tends towards propaganda whereas honest communication is far more literal and considerate of each individual word, one must not lose sight of the fact that many of our idioms in fact retain a specific function which is implied by the words themselves. While “it goes without saying” might be considered “redundant”, one must wonder what exactly it redounds, and while it may be called “unconcise”, one might wonder why it OUGHT to be concise. The simple fact that something is “needless to say” does not preclude its saying it, nor does it rob us of the potential fruits of the luxurious conceit. It may be needless in the sense that the speaker already knows it to be true, but the speaker will nonetheless say it in the possibility that others need to HEAR it, out of consideration for them, all the while reminding them that it SHOULD be obvious.

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