{"id":355,"date":"2015-10-08T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/?p=355"},"modified":"2015-10-08T13:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:56:27","slug":"the-most-powerful-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/the-most-powerful-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Powerful Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Language’s role in Snow Crash<\/em> can be prominently seen in both its syntax and word choice as well as in its plot. Names like Hiro Protagonist and slang words like burbclaves and paddle (to describe skateboard) create a world that is at once both familiar and strange. In the plot of the novel, language is portrayed as a mystical and powerful tool that can shape reality. Although this view of language may seem exaggerated or supernatural, language very much shapes our perception of reality. Language gives us the ability to form concepts and to categorize things in the world. In “<\/em>On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense<\/a>“, Nietzsche says that language can only represent reality through metaphors. Metaphors, as we usually think about them, are used to describe one event by likening it to another event that relates to the first event in a very specific way, and is otherwise unrelated. By saying that language describes reality only in metaphors, Nietzsche is claiming that the words and sounds we use to try and represent reality really have no correlation to reality at all. We often forget that our perception of reality is detached from reality itself. Language gives us a false sense of security that we know the essence of reality. In this sense, language is one of the most powerful forms of technology that we have as humans, and is essential to the way we experience the world.<\/p>\n

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