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[xmca] "Culture of fear".



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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