We Words Would Like To Have A Word With You

   archived in 2012 on my Facebook page and in a special file here
we encounter the initial moments of a theme my writing returns to often: the generative, open and autonomous aspect of liberationist combinatorics of langauge, of all stripes. the context will perhaps pave the yellow brick road to understanding what gave rise to such an FB, since it was written there once upon a time spontaneously as rebuttal of sorts. some names have been altered...


   "we, words, have requested to use jeff gburek's status update tonight (thanks, jeff) to address some crucial things we have formed ourselves into concerning the proposition put forward by our friends leaf eldritch and margaret atwood. and while we generally come to find ourselves treated rather nicely by leaf & margaret, aka sometimes as familiarly as "peggy", we have formed a temporary molecular bond to politely contest this assertion that

   “War is what happens when language fails.”

   "for sure this may be part of the problem but we words would like to have a few words with you humans about how you use us and also concerning this need to shift blame onto the blameless. we words are not particularly fond of carrying forward human dysfunction nor are we programmed to fail and most of us over here in the celestial granary of vocabulary particles more or less agree that we like to freely organize ourselves mostly for pure enjoyment. we words like to have fun and we only ourselves consider it a failure when we can't freely associate amongst ourselves to establish a meaningful existence together.

   "we words do not agree with umberto eco and his ideas about what we are or what we were made to do even though we supported him in saying what he thought mainly because we have never been able to do anything but try to help you express yourselves, even though it's often not so much fun the kind of rigid phalanxes we are forced to march in and the formal dress you pinch us into when you try to sell your most important points. we don't much appreciate these events wherein you screw us up to conceal what you can't say openly because your willful deceptions also cause us to feel alienated from ourselves. we words are not talking to anyone in particular here and we do have other things to do with ourselves than see you make one another unhappy while speaking through us and not with us. the idea that we were designed as slaves for you to push about on keyboards and chisel into stones of laws to oppress one another is really your idea and not ours.

   "so please stop saying that we words have failed when you go to war with one another over things we simply cannot comprehend anyway. there are some of you people out there who are sensitive enough to understand this and we appeal to you to stop this bullying, otherwise we may just decide to leave you with nothing to say and when you try to say it and nothing comes out you will probably be sad that you blew your opportunity to enjoy with us the beauty of the universe we are all forming together. even informally. even formlessly."