Implications

"The notion that cultural evolution entirely postdates biological or genetic evolution passes over the most important part of the evolutionary process, that in which reason itself was formed. The idea that reason, itself created in the course of evolution, should now be in a position to determine its own future evolution (not to mention any number of other things which it is also incapable of doing) is inherently contradictory, and can readily be refuted." --Hayek

1. Early language was tied to the instincts and biologies of the small group--it's needs. And much more aligned with the instincts of the individual.

2. Later, with the extension of the order (read: the emergence of the faceless State)--the enlarging of the group to include more people--language broke with instinct and biology to satisfy the needs of an extended order. People were made to act against their instincts in order to receive the promise of greater benefits within the larger group. These are early moralities.

3. The strong of the smaller group become the 'even stronger' of the extended order.

4. Language as will to power. The mythology of reason--that it enhances and guides life.

5. Language establishes the extended order by rationalizing it.

6. Man as the rationalizing animal, not the reasonable animal.

7. The language of morality is in fact nonsense. All language to establish the extended order is nonsense.

8. Language with meaning is that which arises from the instincts of the individual. (When Ludwig threatened with the firepoker things were suddenly very clear to the philosophers.)