Ridiculed, violently opposed, accepted.
- You’re an animal.
- Everything you have a word for is a word.
- Everything you know is a word.
- A word by any other word is a word.
Like all truths, the four truths above are like all truths, first ridiculed, then violently opposed, and finally accepted as self-evident .
You’re an animal isn’t just about you of course. On the contrary, we’re all in this together.
ANIMAL
Animal explains why our behavior is animal. It also explains why the next time you hear or see our behavior described as inhuman, you’re being been lied to.
Word-users have never been human. We behave like animals because we’ve always been.
WORDS
You can deny only by confirming, that is by using the word, that everything we have a word for is a word, that everything you know is a word, and that a word by any other word is a word. The fact it’s a word cannot be denied.
Take Paris, drop, and you, to name a few.
Like all words, the three are easier to imagine than know.
You can imagine Paris — the city or the Trojan prince — any time of the day and even dream of them at night if so inclined. But unless you get to know Paris, you don’t know them.
Ditto for drop. You can imagine Galileo’s drop from the leaning tower of Pisa 430 years ago, but unless you take what it takes to know drop — °The only source of knowledge is experience° (Albert Einstein) — you don’t know what drop is.
You also is no exception. You is a word too. Trying to say you without using you is impossible. But it’s possible to imagine you while you’re awake, or to dream of you while you’re daydreaming or asleep. But unless you take the energy and time it takes for you to know you, you don’t know what you are, what you do, and what you have, and that there’s a difference between the three.
TAKEAWAY
Which of the three — Paris, drop, or you — do you think is the most important to know before the other two?
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