Our familiarity and relationships with language and knowledge should draw us inexorably toward wonder and excellence. How suspicious that, in general, they too easily tend to silence our questions with tags and descriptions whose depth is strangely seductive. We take this superficial sophistication for completeness, and thus, by acquiring language, lose direct intimacy with its subjects and purposes, becoming, in the end, a kind of half-aware zombie enthralled in the wake of our encounters with the strange authority of language and knowledge. But there is another way; even with the languages we now possess. It requires that we train ourselves to develop our understandings of the dangers and opportunities implicit in our relationships with language and knowledge… these are, after all, not only the source of all our technologies and their applications, they are also they way we derive the purposes that drive our thought, lives, cultures and activities. Why would we develop all our other technologies and ignore their root?