A large portion of the developmental momentum available to our human intelligence in a single lifetime must be expended in an effort to contravene implicit structural illusions resulting from the way language shapes attention, focus, and consciousness. The way language -tells- us (or implies) ‘what’ things, beings and circumstances ‘are’.

And since this is rarely formally examined or attended — that is, we are rarely trained to this task, and even when we are this almost invariably occurs within the language framework in question — thereby covertly reinforcing it — we must generally acquire this skill intuitively, through long cascades of trial and error, which often occur without our clear awareness or attention.

Thus it is that our relationship with language, while introducing us to the possibility of intelligence, is the same force that often inhibits and obstructs it from within. Only when we become familiar with the peculiar dangers and opportunities, consciously, and actively, do we become able to employ this astonishing prosthesis in ways that actually improve our relational and intellectual abilities and potentials.