The problem with people is we stop learning language. We stop acquiring new systems at the point we can get the things we need. Communication never ascends beyond survival. There will never be anything greater until we can get over mere subsistence.
Music is unnecessary as a creative language so only a fraction know it.
Languages not of marketable value, daily currency, are unnecessary. Thus we do not know them.
Boredom is a plateau, so is death.
Life is a responsibility, so is engagement.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Monolingual
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I really like the last two lines. They struck a chord.
I just feel other codes of expression are their own selfsame semiotic systems, Yorgo, and not necessarily languages. The ´syntax of film´is a bullshit expression that stems from a linguistic misappropriation of pure cinema, for instance. For me, music is quite closer to another formal system like mathematics as well as the system of somatic markers in the brain´s limbic system that feeling maps set up for decisionmaking and planning in the world (Damasio discusses this in Descartes´Error and later books) and not necessarily a language at all. This is my caveat for an otherwise ingenious paean to intellectual curiousity.
Your man in Spain,
JFW
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