[xmca] "Culture of fear".

[Joseph Gilbert <joeg4us@roadrunner.com>]

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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