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Old 04-7-2004, 06:53 PM   #1
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Default Unevolutionized Human Communication

It is impossible to transpose the human experience because there is this lack of communication to do it. Therefore the language I have learned to speak, the communication that I have learned to conduct is consequently imperfect because I cannot express a large amount of my experience as a human being. This is both frustrating yet encouraging. I am left in this incommunicative hell where the walls offer no sympathy for my dying desire to express my solitude. There is no one to sample the swirling questions in my head that are almost made for someone to hear. That is maybe the torment of it: my thoughts are designed in a way to be communicated to another identity, but cannot because of the lack socially induced situations where these thoughts might be fit to say. This obvious anger is directly linked to my torment, which in turn is directed towards modern society. Modern society can be blamed for this imperfect human experience because modern society set up a functional rat maze for the human brain that it has now grown too big for. Our intelligence has now superceded the conventional way of thinking, and society stands directly in the way of achieving absolute communication. On the other hand, the one thing that is solely encouraging to me is the possibility that absolute communication will, in the future be reached. That one day I will have my highest state of consciousness matched with another human’s highest state of consciousness, and together we collectively evolve communicatively.

Since communication is incomplete, the human experience is almost incomplete as well. The issue of the distinction between self and others gets intensified because of the latter point. Human beings can be compared to the solitary male African elephant, who spends most of his time alone, only interacting socially during the mating season. Can’t man be simply a solitary individual, unable to express his isolation simply because there is no way how? Man has an individualistic view of himself so amazingly different from how he interprets others. “Others” to man are characters of a play, or dreamt identities that are distantly cold and thus very far away from his own experience due simply to the lack of communication between his species.

The words that have just been read by a reader are an example of the limitations I have of expression. The words that formed in my brain are not necessarily the words that are interpreted by the reader. Consider this: I may have meant something totally different than what you just read. After considering that possibility I personally don’t think you can disagree that our primitive way of communicating is simply an unsophisticated method of symbols no greater in any respect to Egyptian hieroglyphics. In conclusion, the quest of man is no where near finished, and communication between his species is nowhere near absolute. What is conventional now, I hope will be obsolete in the future, and as a result of that, I hope to no longer be personally paused in obsoleteness.

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Old 04-7-2004, 10:38 PM   #2
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The words that formed in my brain are not necessarily the words that are interpreted by the reader.

Art is that human expression, but it's not understood by all, and 2 people rarely view it the same, like you said.

I think if we could truly express ourselves, it would cause havoc on society. We wouldn't be able to hide our hatreds or our loves, our thoughts and our desires. I think it's evolution at work. It's a theme in 1984. The depletion of the english language (minipeace, minitrue etc.) to attain a more stable society, perhaps it's more natural than we think.

Noam Chomsky, political activist and internationally acclaimed linguist, started a revolution in linguistic theory by showing commonalities between all languages and coming to the conclusion that language is inate. We use mutlitudes of words to express the same thing, yet none of them truly can.
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