A language diet
Diets determine health—calories for the body, language for the mind; vocabulary, too, is ingested and digested. When nutritious foods are a privilege, ‘nutritious’ language must also be a luxury. Words shape us—but how?
Educators are sculptors of tomorrow, their classrooms a glimpse into the future; the best educators teach how to learn—after all, the purpose of ‘university’ is to learn how to learn.1
‘Educate’ derives from “to train/mold” and “to lead” (educare/educere); education is forming. Universities now exist as job training, educators specializing in specialization, waiting for a chance at tenure here or fellowship there—is the goal to develop creators or consumers, owners or workers? Students are seldom taught what is necessary—Life’s answers lie not in books!
The mind of a society where nothing can be challenged and everything is oppressive (or “triggering”) is sick beyond cure; Language controls nations. If U think U are a victim, U become one, forming—I mean “educating”—an eternally oppressed class.
to revive CULTure?
restore Language.
Language is thought, bordered and veiled—English, Romance languages, Arabic scripts, Chinese ideograms, Greek—yOUR wall. U can only ‘think’ within the confines of a language; the framing of a mindset, one’s language, restricts or expands. “I did not think of that (or know that)” is equal to “I did not have the vocabulary (for that).” U can only do what U can think of—U can never do what U cannot think of.
Negativity begets negativity, a self-fulfilling cycle where one closed door closes ten times more. Why not have faith? Why not have hope? There’s an infinite amount yet to learn and experience—Life as expansion.
Thoughts birth action!
Communication is language’s purpose, and less is more. Expression of truths with few words is beautiful, but simple takes time. Concise styles include poetry and 四字熟語 (four-character proverbs).
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
E.P.
For sale: baby shoes, never worn
Ernest Hemingway
十人十色 “ten men, ten hues”
一言僨事 “one comment, ruins”
Though, see past 活字の美学, the aesthetic of printed text—and anything digital.
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the…. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already.
They'll believe anything.
C.S. Lewis
Reading "well" is not enough; language is a spoken medium. Remember, the greatest books are oral. Nothing merely “written” is that impactful. The Bible (biblia/the ‘Books’) and ٱلۡقُرۡءَانُ (Holy Qur’an/ The Recitation) wield power because of their spoken and written Word. Homer’s epics were originally not written, and 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji) was too, oral.
Reading text is often precarious as it inflates the ego, flooding a reader with information, enlightened fresh air that stales as quickly as it arrived. U feel that U understood the text; U maybe understood a quarter, if that.
—that is Y writing is essential, it reveals biases.
but that, 2, takes time
To reveal man? Look at his bookshelf.
The key to language usage [and a “good Life,” whatever that may be] is to be simple and natural, therefore honest—that is timeless.
so, go touch grass and smile more.
and the Sun, stays shining—
—it could have been worse!
ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ
Health determines diet and—
Actions birth thought!
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meaninglessness of meaningless
an amorphous blob called society
平 正隆 (my great-grandfather)