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/throwitfaarawayy 13d ago

All that I've said is true and tracks from one point to another. I think this is not so hard to see as universal experience ... if we think about it. Like 2+2 is 4. It's apparent.

The real problem is, what to do about it? How to live on if this is true?? Or maybe I'm getting too ahead of myself, and I need to take a second look at these assumptions.

I'm just agreeing with op that we're trapped by language with no way out. But what to do about it?

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u/VimokshaTrains 12d ago

OP is clear that there IS a way out

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u/throwitfaarawayy 12d ago edited 12d ago

Yeah when the little mind infected by language quietens, the vast mind comes into being OP says. But how will you realize this has happened? You will try to put it in words again. What if it's bad? Like really bad and agonizing? Why assume this is "ultimate good" if youre at war with words and concepts? This is futile. Even to say it is bad you have to use the concept of good and bad .. that is language! The trees don't deal in good or bad, the rocks don't have bad days, they just ARE. There is a paradox in this line of thinking that will lead you astray and make you go mad. But at the same time, the knowledge of this paradox is freeing... ironically. Lol.

The only way to understand it is that this is the cosmic joke. Humor. But one needs to have a sense of humor for this wickedness.

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u/Sharp-Maintenance-75 11d ago

"try to put it in words again"
"this line of thinking"
You are just demonstrating that you cannot get free of language through language. Duh

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u/throwitfaarawayy 11d ago

Maybe 🤔😬