The Single Step with which the Journey into the Noosphere Begins
O.K., so this is an intermediary blog, I am a day or two behind and want to readjust the dates, so I am cheating, writing about writing, which may have some benefit in a Finding Forrester kind of fashion, because as I write to myself about what I would like to write I may discover what that actually is.
I want to write about the power of words to shape thought and how that grew out of the ability of thought to shape words, from the time we were chattering monkeys in tree tops, learning to differentiate between EEEEE!!!!! meaning snake and EE!!!EE!!EE!! meaning bananas, to the time we were nomads on the plains, and if you saw your point man running then you’d better start running, too, and those who were better able to read the signals survived and spread their genes and eventually more abstract symbols, i.e. words, were developed, and those that could use them were probably regarded as wizards, or holy men. I want to write about how we mimicked animal communication, even bees communicate, distance and direction is communicated by dance and perhaps early scouts, hunters and soldiers, came back and used something similar before words were invented, but once you had words you had oral history and as soon as the 1st man invented paint, we had bison on the walls and entire species were made immortal, in a sense, at least the concept becomes immortal, if not the corporeal essence but that is a 1st step, and the more we learned to communicate, we learned to count, and write and give names to things, and again the people who could do such were regarded as magical, the word word I’m sure is related to weird and glamour and grammar and glimmer as well are descended as well from a Scottish word meaning to have arcane knowledge, which at that time very well may have meant knowing how to read and write.
Words are magic.
In connection with this is the idea that any sufficiently advanced technology will appear to an inferior technology as magic but there is another aspect, the invisible active agent, things make things happen that nobody perceives and it’s generally thought of, in magic, that that’s because they happen too fast but is it any less magical when things are happening too SLOW to be conceived, glaciation and deglaciation, the drift of the continents, the pushing up and the erosion of mountains,the changes in the human way of looking at the world which creep on, slowly, generation by generation although sometimes they come much quicker and we all must either adapt or be left by the cultural side of the road.
There is more. I will return to this subject.
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