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Of all the facilities humankind has developed in its timely history, language has been, is and will continue to be the one attribute that sets us apart from all other intelligence. The ability to communicate clearly with each other is so important and beneficial, yet vastly overlooked and grossly misused. As intelligent beings, we all have choices that need to be made, and motives behind our decisions; however, it is language that allows us to …

…the majority of people belong to the Gorgias species or immoral and irrational greed; they learn to use language in their favor, they learn to corrupt words. Socrates' defeat can be seen as valiant, but worthless. As is the case in real life, the Socrates' of the world are immensely and unbelievably outnumbered by Gorgias and the ignorant public continues to be engulfed by the magic of words as opposed to the rationality of reason.