I think I may have overdosed on gummy bear vitamins. It was only today I noticed the DO NOT EXCEED RECOMMENDED DOSAGE label (which is 2 gummy bears, vs the 18 or so I consumed) printed in bold and all caps on the back. I can't imagine the kind of adverse health effects having too many nutrients would really have, but I was sort of hoping it would be a cough syrup hallucinagetic kind of thing and I would have gummy bears swirling in my head for a while. All I have is a slight stomach ache.
Also I kind of ditched school again. And when I say "ditched" I don't mean anything so sneaky as running off the school campus after being dropped off or anything like that. My mom is just a pushover for the slightest symptoms, and in taking advantage of it I am probabably resolving myself to even more immoral means of ditching than forging a grounds permit. Sleep and faulty alarm clocks and low will power and fear of coming to school without homework completed are ruining me. And uh I need to get my shit together, like right now, or these slacky flakey attributes could be conditioned into me permanently. If they aren't already.

So I started writing this thing as a Tiger Opinion piece, but as I kept writing it started drifting far far away from anything I could ever imagine Tiger publishing, but I still find it a really interesting topic and will now post it and open up the floor for discussion. And please discuss if you have any thoughts on the matter at all!


Through the course of our largely language based lives, we often take the magnitude of the skill for granted. It is important to remember that language is in fact only a learned skill, not an innate human ability. While it is true that all healthy human children are born with a language faculty, a cerebral component allowing children the potential for language acquisition, they are not however instilled with the language itself, nor the means of gradually composing one. It is for this reason that throughout the world there exists such a remarkable variety of languages, but from where they respectively arose, and whether all languages stem from one base tongue, or if they came about in a biological zeitgeist of linguistic capabilities, eludes scientists still. Despite its abrupt and unknown origins in the history of the world, after which it succeeded in swiftly encompassing humanity much like a disease, language is ubiquitously applauded as the defining factor that enables humanity to exist in a state of supremacy amongst other species. Virtually un-discussed however, are the negative consequences language acquisition has reaped for not just man kind, but the world at large. After all, under the guise of progress, language was the catalyzing mechanism with which we cultivated the land for personal benefit, justified organized murder, and forever severed our biological ties with the animal world.
Although language allows human inter-communication to take place on a literally mind expanding scale, making it possible to disclose practically any thought that arises to any like-tongued individual, sometimes I wonder if it is entirely necessary to do so. In exchanging information with a fellow person, you are enlightened to whatever insight their personal point of view offers them. Any information transmitted to another is therefore only ever in itself verifiable on a vicarious level. My feeling is we were biologically designed to experience our own lives, and in language, we are deluded into expanding this experience by indirect, and sometimes false means. It is here confusion escalates, and as a result culture, and as a result ideals, and as a result inter-species conflict. From the very beginnings of language to our modern application of it, things have evolved into bizarre territories at a speed, relative to the history of the world, far greater than exponential. The world today is thrown off balance, almost single-handedly by humanity, and our societies and livelihood exist on the brink of destruction, whether by ourselves or by our earth.
Personal inflection on the morality attached to language aside, this mysterious turning point in history still fails to be explained in any absolute sense.

I also wrote tons more on the origin of language and religion's explanation of it and Nicoraguan sign language and feral children, and how language oppresses our most instinctual being and how it limits thinking only to terms available in that language, with the exception of music, and reifies concepts like good and bad that cannot be concretley defined and how neanderthal and cro magnum fit into all of it and different origin of language theories and pretty much everything I know about the subject, but accidentally deleted it, but if anyone is interested I can expand further

also feel free to call my bullshit, because knowing me I am sure there is a lot of it to call, and I am mostly just regurgitating information I picked up in like three articles I've read about this kind of thing

and here i also have an unrelated artwork made entirely from $