14 Replies to “Some Philosophy For A Sunday Morning”

  1. The last line about western civilization committing suicide reminds me of the saying about bankruptcy; slowly at first, then all of a sudden. Be prepared.

  2. Aw, common sense…missed ya buddy.
    Our governments and media really have done quite a number on everyone’s intellect for an narrative alliance in many areas that your NOT allowed to question or inquire about.

    We need a collapse and purge of these assholes who are currently giving us their flim flam, thank you mam bullshit.
    Including our indoctrination institutions who don’t teach real life shit anymore and generating professional activists.

  3. Joseph Campbell always felt that the separation of the words I, we, etc. from the verb is what made English so different. It helps to emphasize the importance of the individual. We place extreme importance on the individual compared to other languages. Another major difference is that we put adjectives before the noun rather than after. Collectivism doesn’t flourish in English.

    1. Nor does mathematics.
      Our school system and theorists still employed don’t like to admit mistakes which their theories are full of especially which adding motion to the equation. It completely shatters their theories and calculations.
      Really good research and facts are NOT encouraged.
      So, like our politicians, keeping the lies going is preferred to losing your well paid positions and perks that’s included.

  4. It could be reversed. English is the language that a reasoning, rational people have created and molded through the centuries until we ended up with the distilled version of the language we have today. I don’t think the English language creates common sense, but is a part of it in much the same way as talking loudly and gesturing go along with speaking Italian.

    2. “… It could be reversed. English is the language that a reasoning, rational people have created and molded through the centuries …”

      I agree. It can be reversed, and actually works both ways.

      My first language is French, I was a teenager when I learned to speak English, and being able to compare the two languages, I was always impressed by how more logical and more efficient the English language is. I do not speak any other language, but I can say that French is much more complex, and no that does not make it a more elegant or more beautiful language than English is.

      As someone with a degree in electronics and a degree in mechanical engineering, as someone who is fascinated with science and learning in general ( I am a sponge for knowledge) despite French being my first language, I much prefer reading articles or books in English, and instruction manuals are ten times easier to understand in English than in French.

      I have been convinced for a long time that English became a logical and efficient language because the people who built it, who fine tuned it along the centuries were themselves ( well… many of them anyway ) logical and efficient.

      I have always felt that French is so damn complex that the mental energy used on trying to say things the correct way is mental energy that is wasted and thus not available for more important things…In other words thinking in French is exhausting !

      I don t have good examples and I would need to have thousands of them to convince those who either don t speak French or prefer the French language that English is more logical and more efficient,

      but one example I found years ago on a tire brochure about a warranty says it all,

      “Tire tread depth”

      in French became ;

      “Profondeur d’usure des sculptures de la carcasse du pneu”

      No I am not making this up.
      That is how it was translated.
      And it is often that complex to say things in French.

  5. Its not so much the English language as the English written word.. The spoken word person to person is now natural law manifests itself.. We all know what’s right and wrong when the situation is unfolding in front of us..

    The written word on the other hand is how unnatural law manifests itself.. Spelling, puts a spell on you.. Understand?.. Laws that have no place in the natural order of things get implemented simply because they were written down.. People read the incantation (spell) and follow it even though it is at odds with natural law..

    Its black magic..

  8. The English language evolved to suit the sensibilities of the people. I have come to believe that it was geography that shaped the Anglosphere’s love of liberty. The English Channel kept foreign tyrants at bay, and the protection from foreigners prevented the local tyrants from using fear of the foreigners to seize more and more power for themselves until the people thought of it as normal. The Magna Carta was simply the codifying of what was seen as ancient rights, and more closely resembles an HR counselling form for King John than an actual constitution, including the warning that further transgressions could result in termination.

  9. Google the “Obit for common sense”.
    We evolved from point and grunt through Shakespeare to grunt and point.
    Through out the ages a Practical People will develop a practical language.
    English is damn near impossible to censor,for there are so many ways of saying “Up Yours”,while appearing to obey.
    Under it all lies the knowledge,there is no collective.
    The State is a useful fiction,but fiction none the less.
    Only the individual actually exists.
    Any “Unified Point of view” is really a mild agreement by many individuals.
    Just as there are 9 billion names for God.

    Thus any person claiming to speak with”The Authority of the State”,is a hoser.
    What you get is the demands of a jumped up minion.
    Obey.

  10. I’ve always attributed the success of the English language – literally the world’s “lingua franca” today – to its ability to absorb words and phrases from other languages. French goes through conniptions trying to remain “pur laine”, resulting in convoluted syntax when foreign words and phrases are encountered (le baseball, for instance, or the ‘tire tread depth’ translation above), while English just meets new concepts and words and instantly absorbs them and makes them its own (like, say, pyjamas or rendezvous). I’m surprised, now that I think of it, that leftists are not up in arms against the English language and its constant cultural appropriation of words and phrases from other languages. Why, it’s downright colonialist and imperialist! Plus, it’s the language that all those books by dead white males (you know, the ones they want to ban or burn) were written in!

  11. One thing that most people do not recognize is that their originally learned language profoundly affects how they think. English is a language that can be both very exact, or completely equivocal, depending upon the words chosen. Other languages do not have such flexibility, and their native speakers tend to suffer for the lack.

    Arabic, for example is so flexible that for a speaker to make a specific point in debate, must phrase the statement in multiple ways. If you must deal with a contract, in which Arabic is the controlling language, you are probably screwed, as the Arabs will take you to the cleaners with the ambiguities.

    And other languages tend to be not so flexible, so ambiguities and flexibility are harder to communicate; or on the other hand, fine specificities. Further, if your language is not flexible, neither is your thinking.

    English has dominated simply because it can be used in both ways, very specific and very ambiguous, depending upon the speaker’s need.

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