Doyle Saylor wrote:
>
>
> LP writes;
> a depressing reminder of the steady decline of American civilization.
>
> Doyle;
> This is obviously written with a bit of reflex. Not so much to explore 
> depression as a disability LP feels but to conflate depression with decline 
> in America.

Just a lexicographical footnote. Some other parts of  Lou's review
intersect the question of disability rights, but this one doesn't. The
word "depressing" as used here has nothing  whatever to do with
depression as an illness. It is merely a common adjective. And the word
"depression" referring to the 1930s has nothing to do with _either_
Lou's use of the word _or_ with the illness of depression. One of the
meanings of "depression" has always been "hole," i.e. "slump." That's
what the economic use of the word refers to.

There are many more things in the world than there are words in any
language, and it is seriously obscurantist not to recognize in which of
its many senses a word is being used.

Carrol

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