[MD] [Bulk] Re: Keep on Truckin'

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
Mark has it right, "words" are a kind of imprisonment.

[Arlo]
Mark, and you, have it half-right. No one said language was not 
constraining, not me, not any of the structuration theorists I 
mentioned. Of course it is. So you if focus on *that*, of course 
words can seem like a prison.

But, think about all the things you are able to do each day BECAUSE 
of language. You can read poems. You can post youtube links on a 
metaphysics forum. You can learn to drive a motorcycle (indeed, 
motorcylces can be built!) and drive across the country. You can read 
LILA. You can go shopping. You can play chess or checkers.

And when you see this, you will understand that, like I've been 
saying all along, language (or any "structure") is both enabling and 
constraining. They allow us greater ranges of agency at the same time 
they constrain that same range.

I'll take the "imprisonment" aspect of "words" any day for the 
amazingly great range of "freedom" such a structure also imparts.