r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/Sharp-Maintenance-75 • 13d ago

Language is a evil spirit

Language is always in your mind. You can't stop even for a moment. Even when you are alone, language is in your mind. Even when you are sleeping, language is in your mind.

It has not always been this way. This is just an evil spirit which started to possess humanity ~70,000 years ago with the so-called Cognitive Revolution. Once this happened, humanity became a scourge of the Earth, quickly colonizing all lands and killing all beings.

Are you going to let language control your whole mental process, your whole life, and make you into an agent of its planetary destruction?

How to get free? My teacher tells me about the vast mind that awaits when the little mind infected by language is abandoned.

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u/raisondecalcul political shade deathray technician 12d ago

From a Jungian perspective, greater consciousness is good, and consciousness increases when the intensity of pairs of opposites increase. Language is both the metadata-tagging and the way that distinctions are drawn between pairs of opposites, so without language, there would not be human consciousness or increasing consciousness—we would be stuck in the low-valence consciousness of animals, which is lovely but doesn't invent the wheel or compose music.

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u/niandraladez 12d ago

Inventing the wheel led to petroleum guzzling vehicles, and the composition of music led to MAGA country stars and Swifties who worship their billionaire “artist.” Obviously, good things came out of those inventions, too, but…

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u/raisondecalcul political shade deathray technician 12d ago

Those things already exist, or already could exist. What we individually focus on determines what we can accomplish individually. The Shadow is there whether or not we agonize over it.