Thank you for this piece. It hits the core-issue, too little mentioned.
The beginning of wisdom requires a reverence for the gift of the word as a trust bestowed on humankind. That reverence seems to have been bred out of modern man. Education, so called, has a lot to do with it. Too many people these days earn their bread by talking rot, by churning out speech-acts in order to intimidate their targets. Like snakes they poison the minds of those who cannot see through the verbiage. It is the sin of our times and we pay a huge price for it.
The question has been much on my mind.