“words are still the principal instruments of control. Suggestions are words. Persuasions are words. Orders are words. No control machine so far devised can operate without words, and any control machine which attempts to do so relying entirely on external force or entirely on physical control of the mind will soon encounter the limits of control.”
William S. Burroughs, “The Limits of Control” (via digitalpidgin)
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Originally from Mana Economics
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