Bordering Language and Intelligence

Bordering Language And Intelligence

It is unfortunate that humans need to use language in order to convey what is going on inside them. Truthfully I believe that there are many instances in which one cannot truly convey what they have buried in their hearts. Emotion and life is buried untranslatable in the bones, it courses through you and forcing you to rely on the construct of words to elaborate what could be rhetorically conceived as divinity. Even as I write this I feel cursed that my ideas are bounded by both my language as well as my range of verbage. However one does not necessarily need to be pretentiously articulate to facilitate their message or capture one's attention. The presentation of a message through one's use of rhetorical persuasion is unfortunately what crafts its validity in the modern age. Aesthetic appeal will always overpower arguments, even if the former is less logical than latter. 

The limit on the human ability to translate is a prime example of one's animalistic nature. Even the very thing that has driven our societal cohesion throughout history has its flaws. Linguistics are filtered and forever will remain uninterpretable to the fullest extent of its message. While we can grasp concepts of a message, it is filtered and interpreted through the mind's filter of bias and experience. This is a language's fatal flaw. 

This combined with indoctrinated belief could be reasons as to why prejudice prevails even in the holy light of wisdom. No matter how beautifully you orchestrate your message, some may truly be unable to comprehend it. This is the prophets curse; the sin of the madman. A genius may be able to conjure his message using the pinnacle of his influential oration and yet even with his combined use of ethos, pathos and logos, the prejudiced observer may remain sulking in his puddle of ignorance. 

There is a difference between ignorance and argumentation. The art of debate is used as a means to get to the point of some philosophical truth. This may be obstructed through the incapacity of language and its expression of ideology, however if its interpretation is verified to be what's intended to be heard then one's filter of knowledge is its only blockage to truth. Experience, bias, prejudice, wisdom, ignorance and cultural criticism are just many of the things that could filter out a great argument. While I believe the filter can be used as a tool of construction, it could also be wielded in ignorance. 

Cultural ignorance of ideologies is what has caused many of the greatest prophets and philosophers to be cast away and shunned as lunatics. Yet it is these same great thinkers that lead to revolution. It is these philosophers whose success is only able to shine post-mortem. Due to the constantly fluctuating ideologies within a culture that is seeming immutable, those who were found to be at peace with themselves were painted as absurd. Deemed to be crazy in their contrasting authenticity. Since when has understanding the viewpoint of another ever been considered deserving of indignation? It hasn’t, and yet unconsciously, we judge.