Immured in this culture of social acceptability we fail to see the linguistic hoops and convoluted emotional strategies that keep the rigid super-structure of public social life standing.
Language is convention. Language is scales upon scales of block code: basic generic units constructing further modules that themselves form sequences.
Yet all speech (as all representation) can only address the present moment or else be meaningless. Speech flattens and compresses the present into a linguistic string that selectively narrows data to draw a general awareness (that needs no speech) into an orientated narrow-focus on specific aspects of the present.. This is the best speech can do – it is meant to help direct consciousness to specific aspects of information about the present moment.
When speech becomes decorative social ritual: meaningless insincere generic, it veils the psyche from what is, and ceases to be true communication but just padding: for comfort and protection of psyches to frail to directly address the present.
To the extent we compute – individually as thought and collectively as speech – strings of data irrelevant to the present – the less aligned with present we become. Following false paths out of alignment with what is. Talking shallow mouth noise – projecting our imagined selves into over simplified dreams. Constructing psyches of simple intelligences that can only exist with the left-brain narrow focus reality of abstract forms, but that completely collapse in the present – because they no longer have a reference of self-concept tied to the present reality.