"we are motionless"

Mistaken

I think people who read this blog and people who interact with me on a daily basis have a very different conception of who I am. The funny thing is that neither image is right.

To be fair, neither image is wrong. But do you ever wonder why we waste so much time trying to cram the world into our small little boxes and neat little stories? Let's flatten the world a little more to help us cope. Just a little bit more.

There are times when I really can see what Nietzsche and Heidegger are trying to say about humanity. We've gained so much yet lost so much more.

I read a book last week. While many may pass it off as a second rate fantasy novel, I can't help but find that it is novels such as these that manage to capture us better than we would like to admit.

Much of the novel dealt with the main character attempting to learn a new language, a new culture of sorts. It was absolutely fascinating. The language, the learning, the struggle. It truly highlighted the problems with language and how it limits our understanding of the world.

Perhaps one of the main problems with modern society is our complete disregard for language as a whole. There are too many words used far too often. We pride ourselves in our expansive vocabulary but fail to realize that perfecting diction comes from more than than just knowing words. It comes from knowing when to use the right words, in the right ways, at the right time.

What does that mean exactly?

In all honesty I'm not sure I can give you an answer. At least not one that you will truly take to heart and live with. After all, I am still learning. Mastery is so far in the horizon that I can't even begin to fathom what it would be like. Either way, I imagine such a discovery must be experienced personally else be rendered meaningless.

I guess what I am trying to get at is that we, as humans, always have so much to say when we know so little. We're so quick to judge, to pin others down with our words, our world. Sticks and stones right?

They say, "words, harmless" and the world responds, "humans, foolish".

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21 March 2011 8:47:00 AM


"this time is ours"
"Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can't seem to do it. They just don't get it. Of course, the problem could be that I'm not explaining it very well, but I think it's because they're not listening very well. They pretend to be listening, but they're not, really. So I get worked up sometimes, and I do some crazy things."



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