Genesis 2:20. On the 6th day of creation – having just created everything in the universe except women – God asked Adam, his latest creation, to give names/words to everything God had just created. The angels – jealous – asked God what was so special about Adam that put him ahead of all of the angels . God answered that only Adam, being part made of matter, could conceive of limiting objects,; life forms, experience, feelings ,ect..to mere words. And so the process of turning souls into matter started on the 6th day of creation. While words made the world easier to understand, through the use of names Adam converted the universe from a place ofeternal and limitless souls to a planet of decaying commodities and thus condemned it to a time of expiration. Adam (mankind) through language reduced the infinity and mystery of the universe into word sized bits. Words sealed the possibility of life and so made it mortal, language became the black hole of human experience. Naming something seals it’s meaning in place and stops it growing, developing, adapting and being able to be understood differently .Words tethered people to a past and future. Without words we are unable to map out a future and without words we are unable to categorise and store memories. Without irony fellow dictionary-ist Samuel Johnson despaired that the poor without language were “doomed to live in the present “.
In ANGRY ANGELS HELP ADAM WITH THE FIRST DICTIONARY the tree of knowledge becomes Adam’s word factory, at the top of the tree angels – angry at Adam’s promotion to word king – take the form of insects who create words used to deceive and limit the people. At the bottom of the tree people are protesting and are trying to break into the word factory, they are unhappy with the few words they have been given to describe the individuality and complexity of themselves and their lives. Rather than bringing understanding to and communion with the world, words – the first invention of mankind and the first form of Artificial Intelligence are tearing people apart, quite literally as children tear the “father “branded part of his body away from those who have “criminal”branded the other part of their father’s body. The certainty and the propriety encouraged by words has people fighting over their right to call an alligator an alligator and not a crocodile, a tortoise isn’t a terrapin, a friend isn’t a bitch, a father isn’t a crook, a terrorist isn’t a son , your God isn’t the God ect….
Your given name is not for you, it is for the use of other people .When you are named it is an acknowledgement that you need to be understood as a useable object – a commodity. This pantomime of progress is continued as a cow waits expectedly for Adam to create new words to find out what parts of his body will become useful ( sirloin, rump, fillet, brisket, porterhouse ect,…) to someone and so while shortening his life and at the same time making him more important. Elephants are called pianos , birds are called music, and people are called cleaners, doctors or wives. Modernity in this place –the word full Garden of Eden – is a time and place where we are defined by our use to progress, it’s a time where the word comes first(our use) and the object – us – comes second. People here experience the desire/need first and then the object /person second. The need creates the word. You are only given a word for who you are once you have found the use for who you are.
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ANGRY ANGELS HELP ADAM WITH THE FIRST DICTIONARY
Genesis 2:20. On the 6th day of creation – having just created everything in the universe except women – God asked Adam, his latest creation, to give names/words to everything God had just created. The angels – jealous – asked God what was so special about Adam that put him ahead of all of the angels . God answered that only Adam, being part made of matter, could conceive of limiting objects,; life forms, experience, feelings ,ect..to mere words. And so the process of turning souls into matter started on the 6th day of creation. While words made the world easier to understand, through the use of names Adam converted the universe from a place ofeternal and limitless souls to a planet of decaying commodities and thus condemned it to a time of expiration. Adam (mankind) through language reduced the infinity and mystery of the universe into word sized bits. Words sealed the possibility of life and so made it mortal, language became the black hole of human experience. Naming something seals it’s meaning in place and stops it growing, developing, adapting and being able to be understood differently .Words tethered people to a past and future. Without words we are unable to map out a future and without words we are unable to categorise and store memories. Without irony fellow dictionary-ist Samuel Johnson despaired that the poor without language were “doomed to live in the present “.
In ANGRY ANGELS HELP ADAM WITH THE FIRST DICTIONARY the tree of knowledge becomes Adam’s word factory, at the top of the tree angels – angry at Adam’s promotion to word king – take the form of insects who create words used to deceive and limit the people. At the bottom of the tree people are protesting and are trying to break into the word factory, they are unhappy with the few words they have been given to describe the individuality and complexity of themselves and their lives. Rather than bringing understanding to and communion with the world, words – the first invention of mankind and the first form of Artificial Intelligence are tearing people apart, quite literally as children tear the “father “branded part of his body away from those who have “criminal”branded the other part of their father’s body. The certainty and the propriety encouraged by words has people fighting over their right to call an alligator an alligator and not a crocodile, a tortoise isn’t a terrapin, a friend isn’t a bitch, a father isn’t a crook, a terrorist isn’t a son , your God isn’t the God ect….
Your given name is not for you, it is for the use of other people .When you are named it is an acknowledgement that you need to be understood as a useable object – a commodity. This pantomime of progress is continued as a cow waits expectedly for Adam to create new words to find out what parts of his body will become useful ( sirloin, rump, fillet, brisket, porterhouse ect,…) to someone and so while shortening his life and at the same time making him more important. Elephants are called pianos , birds are called music, and people are called cleaners, doctors or wives. Modernity in this place –the word full Garden of Eden – is a time and place where we are defined by our use to progress, it’s a time where the word comes first(our use) and the object – us – comes second. People here experience the desire/need first and then the object /person second. The need creates the word. You are only given a word for who you are once you have found the use for who you are.
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