4.05.2007

given steven

To teach a person a language other tan its natural one is a task that is bound to face two major issues, one awareness of the student of the unnaturality of the subject, two bewareness for the imminent clash between the subject (as in theme) and the gentle ground that is to receive such knowledge, which is in advance bewareness of the individual for any danger that may occur to a similar gentle ground that his own self comes to instance, both issues incidentally born from an uneven use of the concept of natural as a qualification of relevance or naturality, no pun intended.

the boss don't like me

What is that beholds us?
As a person is born, it finds himself filled with information of his surroundings, not only the world as it is usually understood (the exterior of our body while it does not fall within our control, though certainly we've had once and again proved to hold no real power over our selves and a grappling capability for controlling piers), but one more complex understanding of the same, that is that the world outside our bodies is truly what we do not command, and as such an unavoidable signal for a difference between me and it, but that difference is as we all know dealt with by means of our senses and our emotional reasoning, by learning what the world feels like, and so the world becomes something we can relate to as we are not merely understanding it but having it as well.
Our brains come equipped with quite some gadgets included, both for rational and emotional deciphering of that outer world, henceforth the person has a natural ability to understand, an ability that becomes sharper though bluntly generationally. But it does not include knowledge, not complex knowledge such as vocabulary anyway, and those first impressions are to become the sole impressions, the first corner seen is remembered and held as the one corner, first come first served, and while actually it isn't held as an imprint for need, it certainly performs as such as unheeded. Clearly, the person is shortly after introduced to the variety of things, and so a new element for understanding -that of comparison- is taken from then on into consideration, but still the idea of some things being natural and personal against those others that are somewhat tagged as made-up or alien grows inside our heads steadily as we grow ourselves, and it is and idea so essential to relate and protect ourselves that it demands a true action for it to be dismissed. As a result of the existence and score of that idea, it is very likely that the person will draw his learning standards (kind of whatever the person establishes to use as a default set of learning methods, structures, demands and willingness) biased by the need to confront what he is to learn with what is natural to him, as if he was to be judged for learning something new and in consequence rather judges in advance himself, pretending he was to pick between what was knew and what is known. Se fueron una a una las estrellas.

i've got a question that's been preying on my mind for some time

Take movies for instance. You simply can not attempt to count or recall how many things you've learned from movies. It is always night in vegas, of dogs and cats occasionally the firstmost chase the rest or cars if available for no clear reason, a six shooter can take on an army, for every bell that rings an angel gets its wings, i've the right to remain silent, everything i say could and would be used against me in a court of law.
We learn our first languages (the physical, instantial, one and the spoken one) essentially from people directly around us, but then most certainly learn some additional different gestures from media and such, given that we are most likely to be subject of images and sounds that do not show nor represent neither our near world nor even less likely our inner stance -except that it does. We as we know ourselves find our very selves over and over in other people, other voices, other rooms, we find what we are (or what we think we are) in the world because after all we did grew in spite of it. It is not a recent subject that the human being constantly searches to belong, searches to be, or who might we be if we are not a mirror reflected on nothing apart from ourselves? For example, i love this song you know, its charming and everything, here comes the jingle, be ware cause its catchy, my friend over there loves it too, its good alright, everytime it starts i want it to last forever and he does too. We belong to the world, and that means to belong to music, movies, candles, stamps, anything that may or may not grow and nurture from our selves, we belong to the music movies etc of others too, the same way as we belong to others. It certainly takes up energy to submerge into such a vivid and intense world and to sustain gravity once inside, and we devote that energy gladly given the tasteful feedback that is to be our reward, but oxygen does not grow on trees you know, so when we're faced with something that is new and alien from what we already have, then it is to the individual to make the choice whether to make the effort or not and how much of either.
Well now, we do make efforts for knowledge, don't we? Quite some efforts if i may say, i mean after all it is thanks to that that we are even able to talk about movies and tv and space rockets and little egg life simulators. Something pushed us into that, now didn't it? A reward of some power, some lady, some castle or peer, all of them nothing but excuses perhaps, but a nice job if you can get it.
Who is it?