“It surprises me to see how very few people catch this “deceptive” aspect of language, or rather the deceptive relation between alive beings (worlds) and dead language. But then again, most people habitually carry task-based activities (which is very different from genuine participation, play, and exploration) in the world (or rather virtual “symbolic” world in this case) without paying attention.

Many of the planetary (cultural, societal, ecological…) problems have their roots in not being aware of the self-referential mirage-like nature of dualistic representational/symbolic cognition. Personal, communal, environmental, and many other kinds of disasters occur when we overlook the most simple building-blocks (or shapers) of our virtual realities and dismiss them as mundane. Disasters occur when imperfect toys or tools of representation are treated as intrinsically true realities. Many problems get solved only in the virtual realm of language, debates, Facebook posts/comments, papers, software, and models but never in the actual alive world.

We are a species who have not (as a whole) even figured out to communicate with each other (and the many alive beings on this planet, the planet itself) without falling for the mirage of language especially decontextualized strings of words, and yet we emphasize more on “physical” communication with “aliens” in “outer space.”

As Sadhguru says, “People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.” More like, people have formed an unconscious habitual obsessive relation to words without having awareness of their mirage-effects… like addicts.”

— @[100011761535856:2048:Vidur Mishra]