Comment Re:Take some responsibility... (Score 1) 297
Awareness of the ways that language shapes your thoughts can help you exert more control over your life and take greater responsibility for what happens to you.
Taking account of the effect of language and syntax may have an augmentive effect, but if even our genetics can't completely determine our proclivities to smoke, drink, and eat, how can we suggest that language has such a profound effect upon our health over biology? The language is certainly intriguing, but we should look at this as a surface phenomenon when other factors, social, biological, or otherwise, have already been shown to have significant effects on our health. I suggest It is self-acualisation, rather than mere language usage, that allows one to exert control over one's life.