[Marsha]
Mark has it right, "words" are a kind of imprisonment.
[Arlo]
Mark, and you, have it half-right. No one said language was not
constraining, not me, not any of the structuration theorists I
mentioned. Of course it is. So you if focus on *that*, of course
words can seem like a prison.
But, think about all the things you are able to do each day BECAUSE
of language. You can read poems. You can post youtube links on a
metaphysics forum. You can learn to drive a motorcycle (indeed,
motorcylces can be built!) and drive across the country. You can read
LILA. You can go shopping. You can play chess or checkers.
And when you see this, you will understand that, like I've been
saying all along, language (or any "structure") is both enabling and
constraining. They allow us greater ranges of agency at the same time
they constrain that same range.
I'll take the "imprisonment" aspect of "words" any day for the
amazingly great range of "freedom" such a structure also imparts.
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