Describe Colors to the Blind and the Taste of Honey
Please slow down
Deep thought provoking questions: How can you describe colors to a blind person? What does honey taste like? Would you say it’s sweet? Like maple syrup? What’s that? As you can see these are a couple of examples of how the human language had limitations. You may say, yeah, okay, so what? However language limitations have a greater impact than you may believe.
It seems as if we really so much on words that we can’t see reality for how it is. Attachment to language clouds perceptions and creates a skewed reality where we must label everything. Once things are labeled and organized, it becomes easier to make snap judgments, stereotypes, and generalizations. Yup, the limitations of language enable make it easier for us to be close-minded individuals.
I guess you can see why lying is looked down upon is all of the world’s major religions. It’s bad enough we have issues with the Truth; lying just makes things even more confusing and stressful.
The bottom line is that you can never truly describe the color blue to a blind person without a frame of reference. And no matter how many words you use, explaining the way honey tastes can never substitute the subjective experience.
That’s why I like the Enneagram and Buddhism as guides in this crazy world: both are subjective schools of thought that work for me, and I couldn’t care less if you personally think they aren’t logical.
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