D i g i t a l B l i s s

"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration, and this is where I think language came from. I mean it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival, like you know, water, we came up with a sound for that, or sabre-toothed tiger right behind you, we came up with a sound for that. But, when it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is frustration? or what is anger? or love? When I say "love", the sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person's ear, travels through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, you know through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying, and they say "Yes, they understand," but how do I know they understand? Words are inert, they're just symbols, they're dead. You know? And, so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed, it's unspeakable. Yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for."