nowadays people view language as a virus which has enslaved the brain and body. ideas and ideology are byproducts (and culture). (viruses are self-consious, so the ideas and ideology hide their naked dna.)
but rOUSseau pointed this out back in the day---men are born free like lions but then chain themselves, and with language they create things (which have borders like property) and proceed to divide the world into lessers and greaters. naturally a countervailing tendency arises, which 'seeks abolition as self-help' (TM). the usual politics just seeks to make all words essentially the same, to smooth out the differences. there is a difference that makes a difference (eg venture capital) but too much leads to disconnects, so you need circuit breakers.
but real authentic radicals focus on abolition of language (and culture) as the real antislavery position. reformists such as zerzan argue you can use language to end language, while this slippery slope inevitably leads back to being hermeneutically tied to fate, while making a vow of refusal leads instead to timeless nirvana and the freedom of neverland. just dont ever say no.
> Miles: All "critical thinking" is a product of culture,
> so--thinking
> critically is a form of mental slavery?
>
> Absolutely. The only independent thinkers are those who
> were abandoned
> as infants and raised by wolves in isolation from human
> culture. From
> the time a baby's mother begins to babble back to its
> babble the baby's
> mind has been entirely enslaved. No critical thought
> possible from that
> time forward.
>
> Carrol
>
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