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Nothing is sincere and nothing is sacred. Our language, along with our minds has begun to sicken.

However, one should not make the mistake of believing this is a cultural issue. The state of the English language is, and maybe today more than ever, a largely political issue. To a certain degree we all, by and large, share the blame for the state of our own culture and language whether it be through lack of imagination, laziness of thought or just plain apathy. However it is the politicians, advertisers, monopolisers and media elites, who have always been purposefully perverting language for influence and profit, and we have let them do it. Political language has always run hollow, cheap and meaningless but it is dangerous when this rhetoric is often heard regurgitated my the masses with no sense of irony.

Language is the great pillar of our civilisation, it is the core of any culture- its is how we think, how we feel, how we understand. It is how we learn. Without it would be little more than cavemen. How we communicate defines how we succeed as a people, as a nation or as a global civilisation. We, the English speakers, the people of the west, the great explorers and inventors, the empire builders, the masters of industry and most importantly the pioneers of democracy have achieved so much, yet the abundance we have been given and the freedom we have inherited from our forbears has left us flabby and spoilt. Now the great English- speaking civilisation of the west has begun its decline, it's foundation, it's language, has become rotted and weak and so the civilisation is threatened to collapse.

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