👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully baffling little mouthful:
"Insurance can help."
30 seconds of baffled head tilts and furrowed brows from the undergrad demographic, right? Honestly, on the face of it, that sounds… aggressively beige. It's basically a government mouthpiece trying to reassure you with lukewarm oatmeal.
Let’s unpack this. Historically, saying something like, "Insurance can help!" was a really desperate attempt at understatement in the face of impending financial ruin. Before the era of actual decent documentation and claims processes, it sounded like someone who’d just realised their neighbour's prize-winning poodle had tragically detonated during a fireworks display. You want to say something far more emphatic, obviously! Now, what actually makes this a somewhat… pointed piece of vernacular? It’s the almost cynical resignation in the delivery. You are telling me that I am about to experience a catastrophic, probably very upsetting, and financially devastating thing. And you're saying that "insurance can help". That, frankly, is a generous shrug towards the face of potential disaster. You aren't promising a fairytale ending. It acknowledges the absolute fuckery of the situation—that something bad has happened, that there’s money involved, and then it offers the tepid consolation prize of... paperwork and maybe a small payout. There is an underlying current of, "Okay, you're screwed, here’s this pathetic
