Disintegration of Language

“The anonymous medium of language can be harmed by incessant lying and thus become unsuitable for inscribing one’s personal truth using a language now debased by a culture of lies. …[T]he question is real, because of course in the last analysis language is something that has been distilled by the use of an indeterminable number of subjects, and perhaps even by their collective abuse and superficiality, to the point where language disintegrates into a generalized cliché.”

Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Epilogue, 81.