'Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze,
but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . ."
Rudyard Kipling addressing The Royal College of Surgeons in 1923.
It is not known whether he was addressing the potential
for demagoguery which would rise with European fascism,
or the power of advertisers to oversell the American Dream
which would subsequently become the world's nightmare
with the stock market crash and 'The Great Depression'.
Or some other future event we have yet to experience....
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze,
but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . ."
Rudyard Kipling addressing The Royal College of Surgeons in 1923.
It is not known whether he was addressing the potential
for demagoguery which would rise with European fascism,
or the power of advertisers to oversell the American Dream
which would subsequently become the world's nightmare
with the stock market crash and 'The Great Depression'.
Or some other future event we have yet to experience....
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