¶ Advertising
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Advertising:
“Advertising’s progressive squandering and ultimately lethal abuse and misuse of the rich word tools of the second millennium, Anno Domini’s language wealth may be surprisingly one of those evolutionary ‘blessings in disguise’ that man is not looking for and does not realize has come about to interrupt his stumbling into extinction and to set him again on the path to successful fulfillment of humanity’s functioning in Universe. The assassination of the meanings in the twentieth century word wealth of humanity by the corporate-business advertising may be Tennyson’s fulfillment of Himself by God ‘in many ways, Lest one good custom (our honored vocabulary–vocabulary) should corrupt the world.’”
