by Thomas Morrow

Created on: January 29, 2010

Language and politics have always existed peacefully with each other. Our actions due to language and politics, however, haven't been so fortunate. Misunderstanding of the two have led to many a conflict, and if politics could be considered simply a way to successfully co-exist with one another in a multi-dimensional world, then language, too, must be considered just the same. Without language laying a foundation for politics and politics laying a foundation for all language, our world would be in shambles even more than it is now.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Politics or language? In order to answer this question, we must understand that language isn't only a verbal. We use our bodies (sometimes inadvertently) to communicate more effectively. Today,when actually paying attention to most politicians, it's easy to see their over-the-top usage of body language. They try to remain confident, triumphant-looking, and in fairly recent history, more like the average person in their respective region. When we find ourselves leading a group or a friend, we like to act as if we know exactly what we're doing. We pump our chests outward, maybe walk with a slight (or not so slight) strut, possibly talk louder, and we do all of  this as a way to sell how we think we should act in that situation. Though acting tough does not make us tough, it can, however,make others around us either more or less sure of our capabilities. This can be a problem.

In my opinion, the egg must've come before the chicken and to add on to that fact, it had to have been two unrelated chickens, both male and female, and the male chicken had to have had a great job with benefits, but that's just my opinion. Without verbal language (i.e. talking and writing) it would be nearly impossible for me to let you know that I believe the egg came first. If I were to find a way of getting that point across with my body language, I would probably look like a fool. Without verbal communication it would be very difficult to convey complex thought. The many ways in which we've found to verbally communicate do pose a problem, though. Most every civilization has roughly the same ways in which they use body language, but our many words and ways we pronounce them cause great confusion throughout the world. There's too many variations of words and phrases that cause confusion to name them all, but if you just think for a moment that If we all spoke and used the same words

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