If someone were to produce a word count of one of the most overused words in our language today, I imagine that the word “pride” would come very near to winning the contest.
“Pride” is our zeitgeist word: it’s the spirit of the age. We’re constantly told how “proud” we should be about every aspect of our lives.
When the Duchess of Sussex, as Meghan Markle, spoke at the United Nations, she declared: “I’m proud to be a woman and a feminist.” But being a woman is, in the majority of cases, a biological fact decided at our conception by the miraculous fusion of genes and chromosomes. Why should we be “proud” of something that simply occurs in the course of nature?
