That’s a real word. To problematize something, to put it through the process of “problematicization,” is to pick nits about tiny things which are themselves of sub-nit dimension in hopes of sparking a class consciousness and hopefully that left-wing revolution Marxists pray for.
h/t Roseberry.
The counterfoil to problematize is soluationize – which is the sole occupation of many bureaucrats who promote solutions to problems that don’t actually exist.
Exactly! Two sides of the same coin. If one wishes to solutionatize, one must first problematize and, of course, when one problematizes, one does so with a solution already in mind.
There are many alleged problems real and imagined that are meant to be and should be ignored..
If you mind you own business and live your life as you should, you will not find too many problems. The ones you do find, will be real and solvable with some common sense and good judgement.
It is the Left who cannot seem to get enough shit to complain about when they already have a privileged existence with the good luck of being born into a capitalist free society.
95% of the things you worry about never happen – Samuel L. Clemens.
The trendy term “problematic” is simply shorthand for “this is something I don’t like.”
Everything’s a problem! http://everythingsaproblem.tumblr.com/
“Wells’s angst was the angst of anyone who feels queasy about the upscalification (yes, that’s a made-up word) of anything originally made by and for the working class.”
Angst my azz. Sandwiches were invented by an Earl.
The working class appropriated an upscale item of cuisine and co-opted it.
If you’re going to get all pissy about something, at least have a sound basis for your reasoning.
A synonym for “solutionize” is “liquify”. This is a rarely used answer to the problem of what to do with marxist infestations. Although they seldom have difficulties using this technique when they are in power…