degenerative language literally warps you view of reality, that is why languages with grammar that fails to illuminate the full world of ideas usually belong to failing peoples and classes. There have been several instances where I cannot understand what another person is saying because the idea they are trying to convey can be interpreted in several significantly different ways. This generally leads to a breakdown in communication and decrease in efficiency in job place, for example.

I remember reading a long time ago about an author that thought that things like drug use, and gaudy welfare programs directly cause a breakdown in the grammatical richness of the language a society uses, causing less conceivable opportunities for the people that live in it. does a linguist or anybody know of this theory?