power

I’ve been thinking a lot (always a dangerous mindset) about the power of words. It has been awhile since any post on this site has focused on language, although it is the primary medium featured on here. Words are a prelude to appearance, to physical imagery, and the influence of such cannot be denied. Yet, image also holds significance, and perhaps, videography has paved a way that is the most influential of all, that is a combination of the two, a recording of real time, the media. The Media is a broad, vague phrase that is used to denote any network that holds the attention of a percentage in the mainstream population. All of this, anything I happen to say, attaches meaning to the obscure and abstract – What would formal reality be without its objective purpose? Nothing. It would hold no weight, no value, and certainly no credibility. A person could not even describe a chair without language, perhaps in gestures, but no context could be offered, no analysis of its size, shape, material, or color. The same person could perhaps show an outsider, an individual living in a land where nobody sits, but stretches out on the ground, or stands, by seating themselves into one, but the question remains – does the chair need a term then, or is the general understanding of its use enough?