Brute Etymology

One of the best decisions I ever made, was to study Latin and Greek root words, their affixes, suffixes, and prefixes. This has improved the clarity of my thinking, and made word choice and sentence structure much simpler.

Once you have set in your mind a solid foundation of etymological knowledge, you can make decisions in your writing that align with a greater precision of self-expression. You discover how many words are related to each other, the core meaning underlying a specific affix, and even what might have been the thought process behind the necessary invention of that unit of designation.

Curiously, studying etymology and root words unveils the primitive mind of the creature that conceived it. The study of language has the effect of instructing about the crude, savage mind of the earliest drivers of speech. This realization connects you, in a greater way with your own humanity.

Indeed, we are not so far from the generations of homo sapien that used these words to command slaves & soldiers; to sculpt clay, bronze, and steel; and to plow the fields of an agrarian civilization. To have a government over language and its root forms permits you to revel in a feral imagination, and devise worlds that only the ancients who contrived these words could conjure.

You are reconnected with an ancient mind which was limitless and unbounded in its originality; a mind able to envision the arts and sciences that we encounter today, with awe and trembling.

But there is also a nothingness at the bottom of language that is terrifying. It is the realization that these words were produced at a time that language became necessary, in order to enforce brutal protocols of discipline and punishment.

What if language exists as a force multiplier for power, brutality, and violence? Do you understand these words we use so eloquently in modern times, that they were made during periods of horrific war and bloodshed, in order to impose control & dominion on subjects? The whole language, at its absolute depth, is a crying out for relief from the pain of subjugation. And we go about using them with cheery tones and smiling faces. It is a bit absurd, when you get right down to it.