Breakdown of Words & Meaning

I believe that the breakdown of words and meaning lies in both the inadequate system of language as well as the inadequate understanding of reality. In one sense, I can see how language could fail when attempting to express meaning, because "all true language is incomprehensible" (Antonin Artaud). All true language is incomprehensible because everything can be boiled down to "things". Even in the piece "Toast" by Margret Atwood, toast is deconstructed into its true existence...a thing. On the other hand, I could see how an inadequate understanding of reality could contribute to the breakdown of meaning, because "There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values " (David G. Myers). Therefore, everything can be broken down into a "thing" depending on our spectacles, if you catch my drift. So, a postmodernist will see everything as merely a "thing" and having no other meaning than that, while theists may see everything as more than that.

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