Arcturus Descending
I like your answer. John Donne’s meditation is a great touch - for indeed “No Man Is an Island”.
I have in my mind the personal desire to talk and as well the social desires to talk - with social acceptance we develop these new desires that are collective and sit next to our very own desires. Some of these desires that are social require belief to come into being - I think this is the case with a lot of religion and science.
We desire the truth - and when we find something that makes sense to us we tend to lend it some belief - any institution is just a case of what makes the most sense to the most people. When we are not happy with any given institution that has become a big part of us we tend to look for answers elsewhere.
Through talk or writ people are able to produce or maintain their self and sometimes a new institution is born . . .
“We desire to talk because we are basically all social creatures, interconnected with one another though at times we may not realize this. It is through the talking, the sharing, that we sometimes come to know this for the first time, each time.”
We are indeed social creatures and our social desires are not our own - our desire to talk can be both our own and social - personal and social. When a person wants to know themselves they are trying to remove the social noise from their internal environment.
The overproduction of reality was a problem that I was facing at a simpler level and I think that through communication we are somehow able to deconstruct these overproduction’s and store these results mentally as some sort of reference/s that propagate both ways to what is being referenced and to the reference/s.
“The desire to talk, at times, the need to talk, is spiritually/emotionally speaking, as important as eating and drinking.”
Our emotional state then becomes a type of “it all OK” or “its not all OK” flag. When all is OK then the white flag is raised and when all is not OK then the battle flag is raised. Talking becomes the medium to help each person ascertain their social state.
“It is nourishing for the human psyche. If we are unable in some ways to communicate, to relate to others, we can shrivel up and die.”
So as we continue our exploration we encounter many other things that are related to our desire to talk. From here we start developing abilities to ask the right questions - the right questions are related to our own desire and what is socially acceptable to ask. When we ask the wrong question our ability “to relate to others” becomes diminished. It also follows that for the answers - if we do not offer answers when asked questions then our ability “to relate to others” becomes diminished.