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Bad Writing vs Good Writing Bad writing is necessary and desirable for a…

- - - - Language plays an important role in shaping our understanding of political realities.
        
        If bad writing intends to reach totalitarianism in a political statement, then it is not desirable. However, if the bad writing aims at making more people understand political concepts in a reasonable and argumentative way(this is really important because it shows that simple language has not taken away all people's individual thoughts and creativity), then it is in fact a momentum in improving the political literacy.
- - - - Paradox: If writing can not explain "hegemeny", then that does not indicate a good progression. "Hegemony" has strong negative connotation and if a society is not aware of the existence of such words, then it means that this society either does not have such things happened socially before or people are reluctant to explain this concept because their language is so plain that it does not support the interpretation of a complex word. Then "bad writing" can be really good, in a social sense, and really bad, in a linguistic sense.
        
        Failure to explain a certain word with the existing language means the fade of certain parts of cultures and history.
- - - - Is this "reduced complexity" propelled by the public in the society?
        
        "Anyone who has labored in the mass media knows that there is relentless pressure to dumb down every word of every sentence".
        Pressure in the media field means that there is high demand from the public for plain language.
- - - - With more public entering the field, it can grow faster than ever because different backgrounds of intellectuals bring in different perspectives and thus propel the field to improve as well.
        
        In this case, bad writing is exactly the style of writing that intellectuals can show their profound research in a widely understood way.
        
        With no new people coming to an field, it would like "closing the door and build a car", per the old saying of Chinese.