- "Negative" or "negitivity" are probably my favorites, because they are so often overused by celebrities. "It's tough dealing with the neegativity of the industry" always makes me giggle. You mean the industry is bad? Are you trying to sound intelligent?
- The terms "terrorism" or "terrorist" are jokes now.
A quick word for cognative dissonence: it basically means that people tend to want to fight for something they've believed in - but have gotten slack for - for a long time. I'm not sure that can be boiled down to counterintuative, but I do see your point. When buzz phrases geet overused, they tend to lose meaning.
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