withers

And the sooner it withers up and dies so people stop spamming Twitter with it, the better.

Often a lack of specificity kills a project, the generic solution withers while the targeted one flourishes.

Let's say society prospers when there's more stuff and withers when there's less stuff.

If experimental outcomes aren't repeatable that scientific line of thought withers and dies.

Perhaps biological life eventually creates machine life and then either withers away while machines take over, or fizzles out along the machines it made.

This is the kind of thing that hatches in my mind as a great idea, but withers due to a total lack of follow-up.

The community withers and is replaced by the great 'meh'.

I can only hope that you'll find someone who changes your perspective and you find your heart before it withers and dies.

If this happens with enough channels, the network withers.

I personally find my creativity withers away under a strict work regimen.

This might also explain why our body withers.

In even Marxist theory, communism-as-a-system (communism-as-an-ideology is simply the ideology which seeks communism-as-a-system as its ultimate goal) is what happens to socialism (which uses the State) when it succeeds and the State withers away.

If one is using "communism" as in actual Communist theory, then "government-assembly-directed-communism" doesn't make sense either -- that's, in that framework, socialism, communism is what you get after the state withers away.

(Like self-flagellation to get closer to God, or brain-cell killing substances "to take the edge off".) I'm not advocating for draconian measures to try and prevent 100% of the people from doing X, and those are impossible anyway when X is readily produced (like alcohol) but there's a middle ground between that and doing nothing while your population withers.

I am Kenny Withers, the one that chronicled the original chatter on 4chan and blogged about it.