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Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
-Joshua Reynolds
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Words Should Be Employed As The Means,

Joshua Reynolds
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
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The conviction: i will not tolerate this age. the freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. and i will act. no one else has both the conviction and the freedom. many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. crazy acts by crazy people. but what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? then you have the beginning of a new age. we shall start a new order of things.
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Being a slow reader would normally be a deficiency; i found a way to make it an asset. i began to sound words and see all those qualities - in a way it made words more precious to me. since so much of what happens in the world between human beings has to do with the inconsideration of language, with the imprecision of language, with language leaving our mouths unmediated, one thing which was sensuous and visceral led to, in the use of language, a moral gesture. it was about trying to use language to both exemplify and articulate what good is.
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The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.
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One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. they literally force the evolution of language. you cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. so if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. the great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. it boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.
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Dare i speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? dare i speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? language is also a place of struggle. the oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. language is also a place of struggle.
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The end of 'the end' is the best place to begin 'the end', because if you read 'the end' from the beginning of the beginning of 'the end' to the end of the end of 'the end', you will arrive at the end.
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