Thursday, February 10, 2011
Development of Human Language & Communication With Others
This guy kind of argues what many believe communication to be, he argued that it is not a written language, but a language mixed of sounds and emotions. The speaker is Jacque Fresco, and he is speaking to it seems a very small group of people. He talks about how language was not invented to communicate, it is the sounds we make during certain events, such as if we bang our elbows, see a lion and call it "boo boo" or whatever. He says that we cannot sit and reason with each other, and used the example "If a black man went to a KKK meeting, he could not sit down and reason with them, it's impossible."
He says language is "the sounds we make in relation to new events". And he talks about different cultures and how they've been using "languages" that were used thousands of years ago.
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What do you think? This is an interesting opinion and I'm wondering if you are for or against this viewpoint based on what you know communication to be.
ReplyDeleteWho is Jacque Fresco?
"Jacque Fresco is considered by many to be a modern-day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or multi-disciplinarian -- a student of many inter-related fields. He is a prolific inventor, having spent his entire life (he is now 90 years old) conceiving of and devising inventions on various scales which entail the use of innovative technology. As a futurist, Jacque is not only a conceptualist and a theoretician, he is also an engineer and a designer.
His organization, The Venus Project (named after the town he lives in, Venus, Florida), works to provide a global vision of hope for the future of humankind in our technological age. The Venus Project reflects the culmination of Jacque's life work: the integration of the best of science and technology into a comprehensive plan for a new society based on human and environmental concern." - from his FB profile.
My point is that he is using his status to influence the technological generation through communication of theory while spouting his theory of communication. He is not an expert on communication anymore than you or I (besides his years over us in experience!). There is some hipocracy in the fact that he can say that we can not sit down and reason with each other and yet there he sits convincing groups of impressionable youth to believe what he is communicating if just one of them questions his motives or thinking process - he is reasoning with them. This link is to "the biography of his life"
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1038926577488#!/video/video.php?v=1038926577488