
Welcome to word explosion #11.
YOU
Some word-users disagree you is a word despite the fact you can be denied only by confirming it, that is by using it.
“But I’m more than a word!” Sorry to disappoint whatever says that, but you is what you’re looking at.
That said, I understand why some word-users believe they’re more than a word. Had school made us believe everything we know is a word, then none of us would now insist they’re more than a word.
“Strange times are these in 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
All I can do is keep on trying to get the story of words told at school.
Facts are dangerous because they are someone else’s truths, and the only escape is by thinking. But for the word-users that think like that, thinking means work and is out of the question.
We woird-users are a funny lot because we don’t believe what we see, we see only what we want to see and disregard the rest.
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
WORDS
Looking for words in a brain is like looking for a symphony orchestra in a radio. Children might do that, but to understand words you must look deep into words and know everything better. You must change how you look at words and think about what you’ve been thinking about.
I’m not saying look deep into words, change your habits, and thinking about what you’ve been thinking about is easy. All I’m saying is give words a chance.
You’ll be the first to benefit, for…
“Words become works.” – Seneca
“Words are how you aim at what you’re looking for.”
And when you get rid of words, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms. You have more free time to look into words and know everything better.
WORD USE
From the moment we speak our first to the time we speak our last, we are imprisoned by words.
How can we be free when everything we respond to are words?
Even a prison is a home when you have the key (more about this in future word explosions).
ELECTRIC QUOTE
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr