Words.
Words have been mutilated, torn, turned around, been disfigured, used to touch, to share, to exchange but also been abused to mean something else than they have meant before, something else than they mean by themselves.
People like to distinguish themselves and their very own (possible) peers by adding codes ... which serves a kind of power plays, only, but never a respectful togetherness. Especially not togetherness over a wider social context. Wherever words are abused, they turn against - against someone, against groups. The main essence is: being against, to form a 'one power' versus an imaginary enemy. An inner and an outer. A black - and a white. Between those, being built: walls. Total nonsense, and totally unnecessary. But this is just my view.
Language connects.
Language separates.
Language, lingua. Tongue(s).
The word is what it is: the word with its very own meaning, developed over hundreds of thousand of years from very first expressions of emotion to differentiated, sophisticated meanings. This was a long long process which is, as information, stored and remembered straight within us. This IS, this remains, no matter what people add, blur or distort.
As soon as people find they have power with the words the use and choose, and if they use them
The outcome is in-congruence between what we 'know' and what is put on us.
In-congruence makes it difficult to take the proper actions.
In-congruence disables us to identify the real picture. There is conflict starting up, inside. It makes us stumble.
Where already analysis goes wrong it gets quite unlikely that the proper remedy or reaction is chosen.
Most likely, this is what is intended - no matter whether the intention is obvious or conscious to the actor or whether he or she is using this tactics by just having adopted it from an environment which also has not learned it any better. If we dig in the past, in our generational heritage, we might find out where a switch might have happened. Most likely, it gets impossible to find. It already is difficult to find out what happened only two generations before. There is so much shame, so much where people would like to close the sight on something that is hurtful. There is so much taboos.
And next: consider that our language including words is very very old. Unimaginably old, actually.
It starts (and started) with the first babbling sounds any child respectively our predecessor species have uttered and found that and what it impacts - inside, outside, in between. And probably starting much earlier - translating the outer world as an inborn expression and impression, a native verbal and nonverbal communication medium. The tongue senses most complexly, it is connected and wired in most dense ways, to control it for reasons of drinking breast-milk is one of the biggest challenges any human faces. Any and every of us.
So tongue - and language - has developed together with us humans all along the way of evolution, accompanying evolution of complexity in our brains. Words create frequencies, words carry information. Frequencies resonate, they transport information, they penetrate and permeate. Brains, languages and bodies have evolved as a team, all in one, all together.
Everything is adapted to evolve in perfection. Unless it is disturbed.
Can people really think they just re-invent what has taken so long to create an inclusion of wording and feeling, of expression and association?
Whenever they try, they also separate bodies from brains; they split. The usual kind of schizophrenia we are experiencing all around.
No one can separate thinking from doing unless being separated in oneself. We need the word - in brain - to sort what we experience around, to share, to compare. We use them to bring together pictures, sensual information, any kind of environmental with inner information and vice versa.
So if people separate thinking and feeling (as sensual information processing) from doing, if either they never have learned these processes in good ways or were inhibited to learn or do so, they automatically separate themselves ... from themselves and from reality. And as a result, most likely and unfortunately with them many others who are close or near. No one is an island. 'No man is an island' which is supposed to be a quote by
John Donne as of 16hundredsomething ... already includes the torn word 'man'. 'Man' has a meaning in human lingual evolution - and this one has been contorted and abused, too. It is very difficult to use language these days without being misunderstood or causing associations which are not intended just because at times words have been loaded and backpacked.
Reality is the information we need to process to act in ways which are constructive. 'Re-Al' not only but also, is formed by words. Words are visualization tools.
Views create words.
Words create view(s).
So just, some words on words from also a limited perspective.
Enjoy a fruitful Sunday, too. Or in-joy ... if you like so. ;)
Yours,
Lyn
