In word explosion #17, I focused on…
…what you DO.
Remember?
You DO respond since you were just a single cell. Had you failed even just once, you wouldn’t be here. Nor would I. The fact we’re all in this together takes many word-users by surprise.
Now with word explosion #18 I take a closer look at the simple “Words=Respond” formula previously mentioned in #17.
Ready? Let’s go.
You DO
Everything you have a word for and everything you know is a word. Therefore you DO respond to words. Because you DO that, you not only have the wrong impression of the not-word-using animals. You also have the equally wrong impression of you.
In the beginning is the word
The children of all animals — whether word-using or not — are born wordless. After that, each communicates wordlessly until the ages of 1 and 6 (average) when all of a sudden the word-users’ children begin to communicate with words learned from their parents, siblings, friends, or smartphones, or with words learned at kindergarten and school.
The adult word-users then add words to the mix of the many wordless means of communication — which we the also possess of course — to develop the most advanced technology in the universe, or so we’re told. But our tech isn’t the most advanced in the universe. It doesn’t even begin to compare to the tech of the energy, fire, air, earth and water, to name a few.
WORDS ARE A MIRROR
Words are a mirror. When a moron looks in, don’t expect a sage to look out.
With only a few sages around, we — internet, smartphones, and AI included — have the wrong impression of what we do. Thanks to words we’ve arrived on top of the food chain. Every child knows we’re not eaten by wordless animals anymore, the occasional shark, crocodile, and tiger the exception of course.
13,750 years ago
The word and word-users were invented 13,750 years ago.
Since then we’ve not stopped to kill, slaughter, use pesticides, or eliminate the wordless animals by means yet to be invented. As a last resort, we put them into cages or parks.
The only thing that counts is victory, we word-users love to believe.
Mistakes have become something to feel sorry about and efforts reduced to a means to an end.
But at closer look we still DO behave like the animals we are.
Except now we DO behave worse than even the worst of the wordless animals.
Now we’re in a war against nature.
If we win, we lose.
WORD USE
Is this the purpose of words?
ELECTRIC QUOTE
“We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. What gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.” – Charlie Chaplin (final speech in The Great Dictator)
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