The Currency of The Realm by Gene Poole

[Guest guest]

Susan: Sometimes verbalizing gives an idea

> reality, sometimes vebalizing points

> out that an idea seems to be an

> impossibility.

>

> Words are so powerful They bring

> incredible pleasure, and they can

> make the deepest wounds.

 

GP: That is so, only if you to

the currency of the realm.

 

Words are the 'currency of the realm',

in the realm of superficial human

communication. Note that I define the

use of words as 'superficial'

communication. Beyond superficial, is

touch, and actions, such as protection

of children, property, etc. Such non-word

communications are very intimate; they

have to do with our survival, and also,

with maintaining a forward position in

inter/intraspecies competition.

 

If words are the primary currency of

exchange, there arises an urgent need to

establish and maintain a system of enforcing

veracity, among speakers. Our 'courts' can

serve this purpose, insofar as they are

delegated to provide serious penalties for

lying about important issues.

 

Given the above contexts, why would a

person choose to to words as

the primary currency of the realm?

 

Certainly, here and elsewhere we use words

as a medium, much as we use money as a

medium of exchange; but as with money, there

is more to life, than the common currency.

 

As I type this, I am not imprinting it in

my own blood, this text is not an extended

sensitive sense-organ of mine; I understand

that among those who read this, some will

take offense, others will not care, and still

others will care, and consider. In any of those

cases, I am not 'at stake'; I am not staking

anything, by offering this or any other such

writing. In other words; I understand that

while we may use words, that words are

ephemera, whose uses are varied, and which

can be formualated to produce 'effects' in

the reader, such as mild mirth, or sadness.

 

Take heed, reader; you are in charge, of your

own boundaries. If the words of others transgress,

it is not the fault of the words, but of the

one whose boundaries are so easily breached

by ephemera.

 

* * *

 

Primates huddle together and groom each-

other; the 'nit' is a tiny insect, an

irritant to those infected.

 

Humans have much more leisure or 'down'

time than they generally recognize. During

those times, they groom each-other, digging

about in each-other for perceived blood/energy

sucking parasitic 'beliefs'.

 

For example; it is common to hear that 'ego'

and/or 'false self' are such destructive

parasites; and that we should be rid of those.

 

Others, rarely, offer that the belief in 'ego'

is itself a worse parasite, than the purported

'ego' is. Thus we can see how people are concerned

about each-other and offer to/demand to dig about

in each-other for 'altruistic' purposes.

 

I say, that each should strive to hold words

and language apart from their vital core; and

to learn to choose if and when, to allow the

words of others to penetrate. If any call for

universal vulnerability, let those advocates

first open themselves to the opposing viewpoint.

 

 

==GP==