Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Decadent

It's hardly a wonder that people are unable to have easily understood conversations when the definition of a single word seems to contradict itself. When we describe someone as decadent do we mean that someone is "in decline: undergoing a process of decline or decay," or that he or she is "immoral: showing uninhibitedly or immorally self-indulgent behavior?"

And why so much room for the interpretation of a single word of only 3 syllables?

When it comes to Greensboro I think we know the answers.