I Could Eat Your Words
So, how have you managed to cope without my didactic musings for an entire week?
Well, i have brought you, from the cloud enshrouded mountain of my mind, two stone tablets, each containg a new word to add to the english lexicon.
At some point in history, i found it necessary to use the term political economy as an adjective. I invented the term "poli-nomic" to accomplish this. It is, i think, a failure as a word. Just look at that awkward spelling: "poli" as a prefix is so confusing and "nomic" is not a suffix at all. The roots of both of the original words are mutilated. I was trying to improve my linguistic mutant when i came up with the word: econocracy. Econocracy describes a political system whose main purposes and methods are economic. For example, Singapore is an econocratic country. Its political system is organized for the purpose of generating economic growth; its social policy is indistinct from its economic policy. Fundamentally of course, the external power or prestige of any society is determined by its human economy, but an econocracy is organized specifically for the purpose of maximizing its economic potential.
The other word is anthrosystemic. I suppose it could be used as a noun: "anthrosystem", but i prefer the modifier. Its meaning is less clear. Perhaps it is just not as useful. It could be used to apply to any man-made institutional or organizational system, but i think that would make it kind of a Pop term rather than a truly meaningful word. I would like it to be more specific in its usage.
So there you are. Use these words liberally, in your blogs, in your interlocutions and in your idle thoughts so that they may seep in like moisture into arid soil and enrich your discourse. Yes, you too can be as prolix and pedantic as i.
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