It Is What It Is

So what, exactly, is it?

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” –George Orwell.

“I wanted to win that race, but I certainly would have settled for a top three. But it is what it is.” – Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2006.

By now, you’ve probably heard that it is what it is. Maybe you’ve seen post-game interviews or live coverage of a congressional hearing or attended a press conference. There are many ways in which we hammer home the point that it is what it is. If America is becoming increasingly divided, it remains staunchly unified around the idea that it is what it is. From Bill Belichick to Michelle Obama, from Pentacostal preachers to Grammy-nominated R&B artists, right-wingers, left-wingers, no-wingers, we all agree that it is what it is…

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