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This is the era of information overload, a time when the marketplace of ideas is so crowded only certain ideas manage to be heard: The most outrageous, the most offensive, the most affirming of one's world view, whether that world view is accurate or not.
Words seduce us into buying products to fix imaginary problems of being human. Words pummel us into submission. Words separate us into "us" and "them" so thoroughly, wordsmiths from Russia affected the 2016 US presidential campaign through social media, something we had never thought possible.
But words may be the only things we have. What else will contradict the messages that the beauty industry feeds us to shrink, de-wrinkle, and beef up? What else will convey the feelings we have about our friends, who are beleagured by the negative of social media?
Love will not trump hate without words, because we can't hug our friend halfway across the country. Humanitarian progress will not be made without words, because words communicate actions Words create a culture; words create a bridge between culture.
Words are important. We must fight to be heard
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