Language as a Limitation to Understanding

When you're concerned about survival those heuristics save you a lot of energy; when you're trying to expand the breadth and depth of humanities' capabilities they're a hindrance. The world around us is growing and changing faster than ever and our complexities are increasing exponentially. It will only get harder to describe the variety and magnificence of existence with our lexicon … so why try? We personify the world around us and it limits our creativity. Many of humanity's greatest inventions came from skepticism, abstractions and disassociations from norms. A mind enclosed in language is in prison.