I suspect that nearly no one is aware that language is a quasi-intelligent and competitive (its functions conserve its survival and structure within its contexts) artifact-substrate from which we engineer organs of perception. It is not merely a system of labels and rules.

In fact, we don’t even have a reasonable class-token for this sort of phenomenon in English… but without these understandings and the cautions that must accompany them… we become the slaves of the languages we believe are our greatest possession.

This is what is and has been happening for thousands of years, and so far, nearly no one has discovered that the causes of human atrocity lie largely in a single place: our relationships with language and knowledge. Until we address these matters directly and with deep awareness, we will continue to ramify the outcomes of this parasitic relationship, and we will continue to express them as atrocity directed against all people, the living planet, and the bases of human awareness themselves.