No,

 

No, I am not busy with you, because, unlike you, I can stay with myself. My Embodied Language (EL) always includes the speaker as well as the listener, the writer as well as the reader. In other words, as a speaker, I am my own listener and as a writer, I am my own reader. Language is utterly meaningless if this is not the case. Yes, I don’t care about you, as long as you have Disembodied Language (DL).

 

With DL, we pretend to be truthful, meaningful, fair, moral, empathetic or scientific, but the reality is, we have failed again and again, as we are telling ourselves and each other a big fat lie. There can be no peace, as long as we have DL. No matter how often we repeat this lie, in some stupid attempt to convince ourselves, this doesn’t make it true.

 

How can I be considerate to you, if I don’t even hear myself and am only concerned about whether you are listening to me? In DL, the speaker doesn’t give a shit about the listener and, consequently, the writer – who is used to this disembodied way of dealing with language, in which people don’t listen to themselves while they speak – engages in a form of writing, which sells, because readers, who buy into this nonsense, find such writing very important – even more important than speaking – as they have been conditioned, by DL, to believe in the importance of reading best-sellers, that is, in books which are read by many other people or in scientific papers, which are often quoted in other journals.

 

The language-industry is a big racket. All so-called journalists, authors, public speakers, leaders and professors, unknowingly, engage in DL, but pretend to have EL. The reason, nobody is able to put his or her finger on it, is because we are all trapped by DL, which only allows us to fake it, until we, presumably make it. And, making it we do, as we create in our lives, for ourselves, nothing but disorder, although, as stated, we go on saying and writing, it is order.

 

We are endlessly involved with each other, but not with ourselves, not with how we use our language. In DL, we religiously, superstitiously, unintelligently believe, we are talking with others, but the fact is, we are always only talking with our own image, our own memory, our own previous descriptions of who we believed them to be. Thus, although we are, in fact, always only talking with ourselves, we believe the other is someone, who is different from us.  

 

With EL, we stumble upon an immutable reality, as we are, indeed, simultaneously, the speaker as well as the listener, the writer as well as the reader. In other words, everything that we have for so long believed with DL is simply not true. As far as our language is concerned, we are all the same. Words or sentences do not occur in anyone’s head, but are always, objectively, only spoken with our voice and heard with our ears or written with pen in our hand or typed on a key-board and read and seen with our eyes on a paper or a screen. The old saying “seeing is believing” is incomplete, as it was written from a DL perspective. From a EL perspective, hearing what we are seeing, that is, reading these words out loud and, therefore, listening to what we are reading, is not some belief, but it is the reality of our language.

 

We notice, we are not frightened anymore, once we shift from DL to EL. Yes, we were fearful with DL and we weren’t even aware of it. DL made us unaware of many things, we don’t like, which fester, because we can’t deal with it. In DL, we remain infatuated with and fearful about our so-called identity. In DL, we are always afraid of losing ourselves, since we do not really know who we are, but as we acquire EL, because we listen to ourselves while we speak, we really come to know ourselves and each other.

 

In this writing, I am not addressing the reader, who is not the writer, but reader, who is the writer. Due to this writing, the reader can also finally come to and stay with him or herself. This is our Language Enlightenment (LE), which could not be expressed with DL. Once the great difference between EL and DL has been acknowledged, your DL stops, your EL continues and you will, inevitably, realize your LE.