i have had similiar thoughts. Like because we think in language we think as we would speak, so essentially we would think slower, and think of words and not an idea or something as a whole. This is partly why i think when we are asleep and unconcouis we can think much faster because we arent thinking in language, or something like that, i made it sound much better while i was high and i wrote it down in my philosphy notebook for when i'm high but i left that in my car and i'm posting w/o it. But you all should get the jist of what i'm getting at.
Alexico Reviewed by Alexico on . Is your language holding you back???? Jacque Derrida says we create a prison with our language. He calls this prison the "Western Metaphysic" or 'phono-logocentrism' "The problem is, he says, is that we in the West are trapped by the voice. Trapped by our alphabetic writing which follows the voice. The voice is linear, in his view: there is only one thing happening at a time, a sequence of phonemes. On a larger scale, the unidimensional march of the voice is replicated in our linear view of history, what Derrida calls 'the epic Rating: 5