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>the only thing they understand is violence

Genocidal Organ by Project Itoh (book and movie). The concept is that words have so much power upon the brain and psyche that by changing language you can prepare the population for mass killing.

A governed populace must be conditioned to accept power-words as actual things, so to confuse the symbolized system with the tangible universe.

Cymatics are a big clue. Vibrational frequencies have an effect on the formation of matter, the world around us is shaped by vibration (frequency of the electro-magnetic spectrum).
In Dune, the voice and folding space by the third stage guild navigators, who need to use spice as a conduit, are two forms of matter manipulation.

The rhetorical violence of the word. The literal violence of the (s)word.