We don’t usually believe that words have that kind of power. ‘You are what you eat,’ we say, but what about, ‘You will be what you say’? What if our increasingly wordy and foul-mouthed world is actually choosing its destiny, with every word it utters? What if we are making ourselves vile, crude and debased, with no belief in the truth or the bindingness of words any more? As all our media sit increasingly lightly to the truth of what they report, they make truth something that we are no longer sure