Today we look at Marilyn McEntyre’s book, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. Our discussion involves finding ways to overcome the challenges of living in a world where lying and all its cousins (propaganda, manipulation, expletives, and other abuses of language) seem perfectly okay as long as there is money to be made. A healthy society is careful about the words used to describe what is real and what is not. Let’s discuss the importance of words and how we use them.
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