My experience is that language is vastly more subtle and deceptive than it sounds on the surface. It’s also more powerful than we suppose. While it isn’t exactly programming, in part because the mind isn’t a computer, language implies things about identity to our waking minds (or in them). What it selects is often bizarre. But it is also almost ironically conflicted; for example, if I say I don’t want to write about politics, in that same sentence I am doing just that. We rather haphazardly associate qualities and values with subjects of our experience using language. I tell you, the stuff is dangerous to the core, and until we understand a lot more about it and our relationship with it, it should be treated with great caution, and, perhaps, a good portion of skepticism. The better move, of course, would be to learn the arts of language together, and teach them to our children.