A New Basis of Language

Many people have looked at languge as the cornerstone of civilization, and a tool of control or cultural engineering: Commies invent new sins and sin-labels on a daily basis, for example. More importantly, language represents bindings of components of the brain. Our extremely analytical/economic civilization, for example, emphasizes communication about value of things in human-trade terms rather than their place in nature.

If language is a low-bandwidth dictionary-based lossy-compression medium of thought transfer from one brain to another, then the dictionary of symbols represents a map of the brains of the interlocutors, and maybe more importantly, is an expression of how they get on in the world--how they get their toast for breakfast.

Cities made modern men and formed how they think and which parts of their brain they use.