dreadful waste

My head goes in different places from other people. I sat in company the other day and noted what was being said. We are all shaped by nature, nurture and serendipity.  To some extent we are the same, and to some extent we are different.

Vocabulary sets limits on what can be thought, spoken and written. Pictures and tools also help to enrich how we relate to each other and the world.

Some people will have restricted vocabularies while others will have extended ones. Your natal language is likely to be more elaborate than foreign ones. And there will be variations during work, rest and play.

As there is junk food so is there junk conversation. It features in the process of more or less formal schooling (aka brainwashing). Different social situations call out different curricula with their own vocabularies: for example I was schooled in Zoology and I thus can chat about vertebrates and invertebrates and their breakdown into phyla, classes, orders, families, genuses and species. In a similar way we have ‘expertise’ in specialisms such as gardening, cooking, DIY, hairdressing, ICT and many more.

It is said that the human mindbrain is a sports car that few people get out of first gear. By the time they are in their late 20s they have become parents and have settled into a limited set of world views.

My brain-washing views this as a dreadful waste. 

There are too many people on the planet – especially the first gear types. There is thus an imperative to have people change their minds so as to do away with myths and magic and to think and act in a user-friendly way.