“Being monkeys, when we encounter a translinguistic object, a kind of cognitive dissonance is set up in our hindbrain.
We try to pour language over it and it sheds it like water off a duck's back.
We try again and fail again, and this cognitive dissonance, this "wow" or "flutter" that is building off this object causes wonder, astonishment, and awe at the brink of terror.
One must control that.
And the way to control it is to do what the entities are telling one to do, to do what they are doing.”
