LANGUAGE THAT DESCRIBES REALITY VERSUS LANGUAGE THAT CREATES REALITY

This matters, because language is a form of power. It creates categories that help us interpret the world, and that which is not easily available in language is often ignored in thought itself. A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.

in order for us to make sense of the day-to-day world that we perceive, we use certain organising language. This language allows us to take the vast array of things and events and form it into something manageable and vaguely predictable. To do this at the most basic level, we use the language of time and space. We say that something happens after