I keep seeing this sentiment along with that one Vonnegut quote, and it's like... do you think we treat words like a magic spell? No, they do have tremendous power.

Specific to Vonnegut, the Vietnam cultural protests changed how the US wages war and put a dampener on Afghanistan and Iraq. 1/3
seeing a lot of writers/readers fall back into “the power of words” rhetoric these days and I hate to repeat myself but if fiction had that much power we wouldn’t be in this mess

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