Language, meanr to express thoughts and feelings, has become passe...for most, most often.
1. We say things not because we mean them, but because we think we should.
2. We refrain from using language to say what we do mean because we think we shouldn't, or have no right to.
3. We use words to kill the silence around us, silence we perceive as proving there is something wrong with us.
4. We use words as noisemakers to prove we are there.
5. We use words without having mastered their meaning...like love, justice, freedom, rights, independence.
6. We use words that are open to multiple meanings...like fine, better, sure, good, best, cheapest.
7. We use words to moan, groan, complain, about our lives, rather than doing something to solve the problem.
8. We use words to cover up the fact we have nothing to say.
"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the the level of the demons." Aldous Huxley
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