Is Language a Window into Human Nature?
It is obvious that we are in dire need of a new kind of language, a language that may be able to bridge the immensity of the gap we have created between the perception of the world and the manner by which we describe the same world.
Our past is not a reliable companion to our future anymore, we cannot trust that the concepts, ideas and formulations which have allowed us to reach this point in time, as an evolutionary intersection, will yield the same results.

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We need a new kind of language, but where are we going to find a new language, how are we going to find or create a new language?
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Our past is not a reliable companion to our future anymore, we cannot trust that the concepts, ideas and formulations which have allowed us to reach this point in time, as an evolutionary intersection, will yield the same results.

the following is an excerpt from :"Is Language a Window into Human Nature?"
The discrepancy between objective and inner reality is the reason we have difficulty understanding large numbers, the way statistics works, scientific theories like Newtonian physics and evolution, and quantum physics or how to navigate our complex modern society, which is so different from a small tribe of hunter-gatherers.
Deeply ingrained in all the world's languages are conceptions about sex, intimacy, power,fairness—as well as ideas of divinity, degradation, and danger. This intuitive model of reality is a product of natural selection: the way it parses the world around us, the way it uses shortcuts and assumptions would have served our hunter-gatherer ancestors well, but it is less than perfect for dealing with some of the problems we face in the 21st Century.
We need a new kind of language, but where are we going to find a new language, how are we going to find or create a new language?
more:
In the last chapter, "Escaping the Cave" (referring to Plato's allegory of prisoners in the cave), he points out not only the dangers that our intuitive thinking can pose, but how remarkable human achievements are in light of them.
"Though language exposes the walls of our cave," he says, "it also shows us how we venture out of it, at least partway. People do, after all, catch glimpses of the sunlit world of reality. Even with our infirmities, we have managed to achieve the freedom of a liberal democracy, the wealth of a technological economy, and the truths of modern science."
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