As the way I created to memorise the word "plastic attitude", a platitude may simply be a daily routine, given much less attention than it was hoped to be.
It always reminds me of short prayers. I am not saying that religious believers are repeating their prayers mindlessly. I am talking about what happens when you force a large sum of people to repeat several phrases every single day. It would be just one of the things they do at a particular time of the day, just like brushing teeth or watching news. The intention may have been to familialise people with the idea, but they get too used to it and stop thinking about it. The phrase will just be meaningless, banal platitude. They, themselves, are just having their people do it without much consideration. There are too many things repeated over time without a reason or a purpose, in the pretext of following the tradition. Why is the brainless, empty custom acting so big? Isn't there anyone who thinks? When on earth does that seeking-to-be-the-majority attitude end?
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