spinepurity
/ˈspaɪnˌpjʊərɪti/nounVerified NewThe moralised pursuit of one correct posture, in which slouching is treated as a small ethical failure.
Ergonomics began as injury prevention and acquired a congregation: the chin tucks, the lumbar cushions, the public corrections of colleagues. The evidence for a single ideal posture is thin; the sermon is not. Spinepurity names the doctrine.
Etym. — spine + purity — a biomechanical preference recoded as virtue.
Rel. — dawnpiety
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