Better to Remain Silent …

… and be be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt – Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

Have you noticed that every Tom, Dick(!) and Harriet has a Spokesperson? And not only those three clowns but also every Cabinet Minister, Deputy Minister, Assistant Deputy Minister (turtles all the way down), every government department, every provincial MEC and provincial department has one or more spokespersons (shorthand Spokeree: The boss of the Spokesperson. Spokerer is the spokesperson).

Not to mention that most big corporations also need spokerers.

A veritable army of spokerers. On TV we even see sign language spokerers signing for vocal spokerers.

What does this spokerer army do the whole live long day? (i.e. when they’re not negotiating contracts to supply Covid PPE’s) Do they spoker all day long? How do they know what needs to be spokered? Do they consult with the spokeree? In which case the spokeree could just have cut out the middleman/woman and be the spokerer. But, hey, Middlewomxn/mxn (woke, hey?) is the name of the game, not so? Just ask any tenderpreneur – lots to choose from.

But maybe the spokerers are needed so the spokerees only look stupid – lest we catch on to the horrible (inconvenient) truth?

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