Language

Language is the playhouse of imagination and reality. They provide a conceptual space for thinking.

Morality is a symbolic foundation for action. Morality coordinates the habits of people with regard to matter. Morality influences people's attitudes toward things and events because it influences their meaning through a ritualized observance. Ritualized observance is any recurring behavior. Morality is loosely defined as an axiomatic vocabulary, which is draped upon the world. Key to understanding the power of morality and its cyclical reproduction through time is the method by which it enlists the world as the originating symbol for human motive. One such method is to place observed, common sense reality upon a cosmological framework suggesting an ultimate origin. The cosmological framework works as a tether pole fabricated out of time around which a family of related concepts form and are used to build a story about everything that relates practically to the identity of the person. This is experienced as a terminus in the prosaic matters of everyday life. Out of these varied and disconnected moments a classification scheme gives semblance to occurrences and grants them meaning as typifying moments. And in being typical, these moments get symbolized in language and interact with the symbolic imagination. From this people derive motives and motivation, thus driving their action as ritualized in conception and experience as events in the future perfect tense (i.e., I will have ...). The future perfect tense suggests a reliable sense that something will recur because it happened before. That it happened before may offer some understanding of the cyclical nature of events. It may also point to the actions of memory and imagination whereby individuals craft names for experience and reuse them as similar experiences arise (e.g., birthdays). This continual process of naming and experiencing is what typifies the activity of a self-conscious humanity. It also flavors the experience with what could be called time travel, that is, reliving the past to make sense of the present and to plan the future.