The best quotes of recent times, I think, are from Rudyard Kipling and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling
“Call it a dream, it does not change anything.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Even though I’ve known these quotes for years, they still keep blowing me away.
The reason is I discovered that a word by any other word is still a word — expressed with this simple formula: “Word=Word” — nine years ago.
Since then, I’ve worked non-stop to get the message across.
That’s how I’ve become a lone wolf that keeps his words, pursues his vision of seeing the story of words told at school, doesn’t give up, and believes what he’s trying to achieve is already done by invisible hands.
Call it a dream
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudyard Kipling say the same thing.
Words are the most powerful drug used by word-users, and calling this most powerful drug —words — a dream does not change anything.
Rather than change anything, calling words a dream only confirms that meanwhile 9 billion word-users (and counting) exist in a dream world of words where nobody knows what is real — a Spanish word pronounced in English — and what is not.
School
When I was young, I was told — and believed it, too — school is where what you need to know gets explained.
But what you need to know only works for pictures and sculptures.
Preachers and teachers explain that a picture of an animal is not the animal.
And if you’re lucky, that a sculpture of an animal is not the animal.
But no matter how lucky you are, no preacher nor teacher explains that animal — the word — is not the animal.
Why do you think that is?
I know. If you’re interested in knowing it too, feel free to ask.
“Except for children that don’t know enough not to ask the important questions, few of us spend much time wondering why nature is the way it is.” – Carl Sagan
“Kids ask, ‘What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?’ They just bubble right out of them. You go talk to 12th graders and there’s none of that. They’ve become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.” – Carl Sagan
”Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato
“The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.” – Marshall McLuhan
“When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul Simon
Takeaway
Superwoman, James Bond, and God (to name a few) are words that couldn’t be anything else if they tried.
While you refuse to see or believe this, you’re sleepwalking into believing that fictional characters talk and you should bow down and worship them for breakfast.
If you refuse to believe and see this words for what they are, with your own eyes, it suits those in charge of Superwoman, James Bond, and God’s marketing.
But it doesn’t suit you.
On that, my friend, I give you my word.
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