Words and Reality

The breakdown of words and meaning lie within both an inadequate system of language and in an inadequate understanding of reality. Margaret Atwood's piece, "Toast" displays the misleading and confusion that can come from our language, such as when she uses toast to describe one thing and then another thing. In fact whenever one comes down to it, thing is the final explanation for just about everything when one runs out of words to describe whatever it is they are trying to describe. Life is therefore a thing in and of itself that is ultimately unexplainable by words, for words by this logic have signs, but no signifieds. A distorted perception of reality can also be blamed for the loss of meaning, from my belief as a Christian that the Fall contaminated our whole order of existence and twisted what was once reality. We can never know the true meaning of things because reality is distorted and has fallen from what it once was. Without answers as to what the reality previously entailed, there is no true meaning found, only a likeness. Because of the mix of these two man is incapable of finding meaning in words or in this "thing" called life.

Disclaimer: I'm just throwing this out there.