'Who' 'Am' 'I': The NIGHTMARE OF Language

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Who Am I: The NIGHTMARE of Language

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Asking myself this question "Who Am I" has driven me down paths of confusion and depression. Luckily, I recognize that these words all say the same thing: 'Who' implies a person that seems mysteries, 'am' implies identity, that this mysterious figure has equivalence to 'I', which implies another vague entity. I love E-Prime (the English language without the for "to be") for this reason. I believe it forces proper abstraction of reality, and doesn't declare an absoluteness of reality.

What Do I Call Myself

By saying, What Do I Call Myself, as other languages do, we give ourselves a bit more room for understanding which "I" we refer to. On the Internet we have "usernames" either to hide our identity or to show our a bit of personality. I find this very convenient actually, as it help us differentiate what is on the internet, in verbal perfectionist reality, and human-ness, where we shit and wait on lines. Don't consider this a split personality, consider it a different "word" or "object" to have a better description of what we describe in reality. Like saying "big pebble" when we can say "rock."

The Creation Of Juxley

Aldous Huxley and I have the same birthday. He describes the nasty effects of social condition and talks about how important technology places in all of it. He points out how governments, such as Hitler's Nazi Germany, love how people believe that words, graphs, models, and newspapers actually describe reality, when in fact, it looks like complete bullshit when you see through the emptiness of what they describe.

He smacked me in my young unknowing slumber, and ended up in a depression after reading his book Brave New World, and now I wear his name like a badge, almost like Batman and his fear of Bats. But I don't fear Aldous Huxley, I feel more confused by him. I plan on talking about him more in the future.

So, when "I" film myself and you see me on a camera, call me Juxley. This parallels when a "fan" becomes a "disc." Take a look at this video to understand what I really mean.

Similarities Between Juxley and Jason

Similarities:


Same appearnce, perhaps personality, knowledge of the world, voice, etc.

Differences:


Jason: Realistic, imperfect, character, exists non-verbally
Juxley: Idealistic, can become perfect, reputation

Scared Of Things That Aren't There


So, we tend to feel frightened by things that aren't there, or accept exists of things that don't really exists. "I" just write this verbally, all of these words may have a different meaning to you, and that all that I try to convey can turn into mush.

Yet, we start to identity for "this" person on the video, creating a celebrity-ness of people, not truly understand or knowing their character, but only their reputation. Totalitarianism loves this, they can create entities that aren't even there, have "terrorist-attacks" where perhaps there is no terrorist attack. A full on meme starts to overtake reality, and we then imprision ourselves through limiting beliefs, we stand no chance against controllers. So, let us be cynical of our language, so that the maze of language does not prevent us from making more leaps and bounds through our reality.

I call myself @juxley: Thanks For Reading!


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Well that's a interesting read. :P