Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.