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Re: [xmca] "Culture of fear".
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- Subject: Re: [xmca] "Culture of fear".
- From: mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:32:03 -0800
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Gilbert -- I assume the "Our" you start with is a statement about homo
sapiens sapiens?
I am uncertain of the temporal sequence in your account of language. My
stomach grumbles, a bodily sound. Do I use this sound to represent something
outside of myself? How i react to something presumably is conditional on
what I am doing and where i am but hard to see that in your account.
The part about a fearful environment of evolutionary adaptation certainly
seems plausible....... and for most of humanity a lot of the time, remains
true to this day.
mike
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Joseph Gilbert <joeg4us@roadrunner.com>wrote:
> Our culture is based upon a fearful world view. It was instituted with the
> roots of human language. What were the living conditions for humans at the
> time that the roots of our current language were established?
>
> It is very curious that we use sounds of our bodies to represent
> things outside of us. The sounds of our bodies represent goings-on of our
> bodies, physically and emotionally. We use the bodily sounds which come from
> the way we are affected by a thing to represent that thing It is the effect
> on us that is represented by our bodily sounds, not the thing. The thing is
> indirectly represented by our body sounds as a consequence of how we are
> affected by the thing. There is the THING, the EFFECT and the BODY SOUND.
> Without the effect, there would be no sound. Without the sound, there would
> be no word. We cannot take our reactions to things out of the picture of how
> language works and expect to understand it. Language is primarily all about
> how we react to things. It conveys how we react to each other. The
> how-we-react about any particular thing is the what-that-thing-means. What a
> thing means can only come from our experience with it and we experience our
> reaction.
>
> Joseph Gilbert
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