"Language is literally made by corporate and national Business, by hired researchers, entertainers, press agents, etc. The more blatantly production for profit demands manipulation of needs, the more obviously it depends on mass hypnosis and autosuggestion, the more vanishes the difference between the 'ethics' of business and those of the racket, between selling and cheating, between promoting and poisoning, between truth and lie, sense and non-sense."
Herbert Marcuse, "Language and Technological Society" (Beacon Press), p. 67.
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