This article is published in the Penthouse AU…
Language is human civilisation’s weapon of mass destruction. Employed cunningly, it can topple empires for no other reason than a mob decides to seize power. It is a phenomenon once studied in the chasms of university or scrolled beneath a news broadcast where some banana republic on the other side of the world has set itself on fire. How can sensible people fall into ruin overnight? Why do they burn their cities and machete their neighbours? ( read it online here… )