language
To share parts of ourselves as a way of undoing aloneness, as a method of connection, as a form of putting words to something someone else might not yet have the words for, feels like shining a flashlight on something that would otherwise stay hidden, or as Ocean Vuong said, building fire escapes for each other.
The more powerful communication technologies become, the more people will fight wars over words instead of territory. Language, when wielded at scale, is among man's most powerful weapons.
a beautiful passage from sublime’s innaugural zine on why language matters, in the context of building a different web.
How Language Shapes Thought | Lera Boroditsky
youtube.comThe people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.
~Lakoff & Johnson
Sometimes you want to say things, and you’re missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That’s how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn’t exist.