We all have a relationship to at least one language. We are monolingual, bilingual, multilingual; we strive for objectivity or expressiveness. Is language diversity good? or does it create more linguistic barriers? Does different languages change our perception of reality, or does study make us see clearly? Does world languages help bring us together, or make it easier for might to manipulate us all?
We all have relationship to languages; and so the question is: How do we relate to them? How should society relate to them?
What is the role of languages? How do we see whether languages moves in the right or wrong direction? Is there a right or wrong direction?
Isn’t it more the medium is the message type shit? Eventually language goes from expression to communication to conveying experience and ergo the language you choose becomes part of the experience, and it’s all going to loop back around.
That’s why we program, right? Story telling, art, civilization, building a world with unique cracks in your universe until technology facilitates the creation of a universe. A Von Neumann machine. Forgetting whilst experiencing.
This is it’s self a product of knowledge, the more you have the less you see (your experience becomes collecting expressions, rather than sense-data). It’s Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle.
Eventually you just see yourself experiencing and signals are all that matter… Signals that go beyond language.
The point of language is to transcend it.
Could you explain in your view how we transcend language?
I think the very difficulty is that it can’t just be done on command. You can’t just say “give instructions on how we use language to transcend language” it’s shifting and is a matter of mood, artistry, inspiration. The muses. Meaning beyond meaning.
The kind of thing you only know when you see it, and if you could explain it, it wouldn’t be what it was.
What comes to my mind when you say this is daoism, buddhism, mindfulness, meditation, qigong and spontaneous dancing. To focus on the experiencing over theorizing.