The effect of this constantly expanding sphere of pipikism is that it’s not just more difficult to talk about real examples of disaster profiteering or the need for a Green New Deal. Gradually, it has come to feel as if every idea of any import, every word that might express the magnitude of our moment, has been boobytrapped before it can even be uttered.

XREF: Connects to Orwell's critique of dying metaphors and the general complaint that political language debases thought.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 487