When Words Lose Their Meaning

From Moggie at Time to tell the truth:

Michaal Parkinson asked the poet Auden ‘..what was the purpose of a poet’ and he said, ‘‘As a poet one has a political duty, which is to try, by one’s example, to protect the purity of the language. Because when words lose their meaning then I’m quite sure physical violence takes over.”

I think this is a really compelling statement.

Probably because it explains why so many people stay in relationships that make them unhappy and then blog about it.

Where words have lost the power to convey our feelings or elicit some change in behaviour, venom and fury begin to take over.

By writing down the enormity of the frustrated emotions that have overtaken them, bloggers feel they can, at least, be heard by someone.

And, thus, avoid the need to engage in some form of violent confrontation.