BEFUDDLED — AGAIN!

“We are so befuddled by language that we cannot think straight.” Bateson (1970, 246)

As linguistic and semantic beings, we live in the house of language. And because we live there, language inevitably shapes our perceptions, meanings, understandings, beliefs, values, and in a word—everything human. It cannot not have that much influence. And as a neuro-linguistic being, you think with language, you define yourself with words, and you even experience your experiences through the terms that you use. No wonder we say in Neuro-Semantics that “the language you use defines the world you live in!” And yet that is probably an under-statement. Even more is involved.