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Language Has a VERY DARK Secret (I’ll Prove it) | Chase Hughes | YouTubeToText
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Language acts as a "parasite" in our minds, pre-labeling and categorizing experiences before we can perceive them directly, thereby shaping our reality and identity.
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There is a kind of parasite [music] in
your mind right now. It's stopping you
from seeing reality. [music] And I want
to tell you that I'm not using that word
poetically. I mean the biological
definition of a parasite. And a parasite
has four basic traits. [music] It needs
a host. It consumes the resources of the
host. It alters the host's behavior to
promote its own survival. And four, it
replicates through the host into a new
host. language meets every criteria of a
parasite. And I'm going to prove it to
you. I want to literally show you this
thing inside of your head right now. I'm
going to put something very simple on
your screen, but I don't want you to
think about it. I just want you to
notice what your mind does the moment
that it appears on the screen. Are you
ready? Here it is. I guarantee you
something happened inside your head
before you realized it. We're going to
go to experiment number two. Now I just
want you to watch what your mind does.
Here it is.
And instantly without your permission
your mind starts whispering in your
head. Mona Lisa Da Vinci famous [music]
painting triangle before your eyes were
done looking. You didn't experience the
thing first. Your [music] brain named it
first. Most people don't realize it but
this happens to our [music]
entire lives. We label emotions before
we feel them. We label people before we
get to know them. We label ourselves
before maybe we get a chance to decide
if something is true or not. Language is
jumping in front of every [music]
experience. And it's hijacking it. Let
me show you just how deep this really
goes. Your language doesn't just name
things. [music]
Your language creates the categories of
things that you see. As an example,
different cultures divide the world in
completely different ways. And because
of that, they literally perceive
different realities. If your language
has no word for a certain color, [music]
your brain becomes way slower or even
completely unable to see that color. The
category [music]
shapes the perception. So, your language
isn't really describing your world. It's
[music] deciding what your world
contains. We do not think with [music]
logic. We think with metaphors that we
did not choose [music] ourselves. Just
think of like the metaphors that we live
by. There's thousands that are
programmed into our [music] our psyche.
Time is money. Love is a journey. The
mind is a container. None of these
things are facts. They're metaphors that
became little prisons for us. Every
belief that you've ever held, every
certainty, every fear, every limitation
that you think is just who you are was
shaped inside of a language that you
didn't choose. You didn't pick the
categories, the metaphors to understand
yourself. You didn't pick the metaphors
you used to know who you are as a
person. You inherited these things. If
you grew up and you heard words like
lazy [music] or not enough or
problematic or dramatic, quiet,
difficult, shy, [music]
gifted, maybe smart, maybe broken, they
didn't describe you. They became you.
And the moment that someone labeled you,
your mind built a world around that
label. And the world became a huge cage.
So language doesn't reflect your
identity. that constructs the identity.
In my opinion, the scariest part of that
is [music]
once the construction of the identity is
complete, we defend it like crazy. We
protect the thing that is limiting us.
We say things like that's just my
personality or I've always been like
this like our identity is some kind of
geological fact [music] instead of a
language program.
But answer this question honestly.
[music] And this is another experiment.
If you had been raised in another
family, another culture, another
language with different [music] labels
and different metaphors and different
narratives, would you be the same
person? Of course not. So that means
that our identity is not the pure
authentic me that I think I am. It's a
side effect of language that raised
[music] us. You've only met the version
of you that language allowed you to be.
And we spend our lives trying to live up
to a sound, a word. And language takes
every [music] experience that you have
and cuts it down to fit inside of a
category that existed way before we
[music] were ever born. You never met
your mother as she truly is. [music] You
met the word mother. You met mom. You
started defining it as mom as fast as
you can. In fact, that's the oldest
known word ever discovered. As a fun
fact, how many arguments have you had
with people that were never about the
situation? They were about the words [music]
[music]
that you and someone else used to
describe the situation. How many moments
of connection were maybe ruined cuz
people use the same word that had
different meaning. And if [music] you
think about your emotions, a lot of
people don't feel sad, they feel the
word sadness. [music]
And everything that the culture taught
us to attach to the word sadness. And if
you think that you're bored with your
life, or maybe you're bored in life
right now, I promise that you're not.
You're just seeing the world through
some linguistic categories that are on
repeat. Chair, bottle, hand, normal. All
of a sudden, your life becomes a
slideshow of things that we already
think we totally understand because we
have a label for it. It turns the sacred
things into ordinary things. I want you
to feel something and try it out.
Wherever you are, look at the nearest
object in the room. Wherever you're
sitting, wherever you're standing, don't
pick a special one. Just whatever's
closest. Maybe it's a a water bottle or
a chair or maybe it's your hand.
Anything [music] at all. So, all right.
You got it. Good. So, now just for two
seconds, refuse. I want you to
absolutely refuse to name that thing.
Don't say the word in your head. Don't
categorize it. Don't reach for the
concept of what it is. Just look at it
right there. [music]
Notice how fast your mind tries to name
it automatically. It's desperate. It
can't stand not knowing what to call
something. So, it's like the mind panics
when language goes silent. And I think
it does this because without language,
you become present. There's a sudden
sharpness, increase of reality and
clarity. There's a moment of raw just
presence that almost feels like a memory
from childhood. That's how I would
describe it anyway. That's what the
world feels like without the parasite
jumping in line. The parasite can still
be there, but you're just putting it in
its actual place where it's meant to
behind experience. I want you to think
of the most real moment in your entire
life. The moment that punched through
everything, like the birth of a child,
maybe a breakup, maybe a death, maybe it
was a moment of terror, or maybe it was
the kind of just incredible awe that
just shuts down [music] your breathing.
In that moment,
there weren't any words, none. Language
arrived after that experience [music]
and then it tried to shrink that thing
into a sentence cuz it couldn't language
couldn't hold the size of what happened.
That is your proof. Every moment that
you felt truly alive in your life was so
much bigger than the language that you
used to describe it. And if language was
just a tool, then we could put it down.
But we can't
try not naming something for 10 seconds.
The brain goes into a panic. It begs for
a label. It demands some kind of a
category. And that's a system with
survival instincts. And anything that
comes before your perception is in
control of your perception. Maybe you're
probably realizing that this isn't just
a theory, [music] that this is something
that you can actually feel. But there is
a catch here. Waking up to this is just
the beginning. We still have to break
the spell. And for the last two years,
I've been building that book designed to
do exactly that. And the book is called
Tongue. [music] It's definitely not a
normal book at all. It's not written the
way that a book is supposed to be
written. It breaks every single rule.
And it it doesn't teach you about
language. It bypasses language for you.
[music] And it's maybe the most bizarre
thing that you're ever going to see
printed on paper. Every line, [music]
every page was engineered to pull your
experience [music] back in front of the
words where it's supposed to be.
So, tongue is just a small little
paperback and it works by destabilizing
the automatic [music]
naming reflex. It really does disrupt
the parasite and it forces your [music]
perception to show up first and your
language to show up second. Some pages
read you [music] out loud in a way that
you've never seen done in a book before.
And some pages of the book glitch out
your inner voice completely. And some
pages collapse meaning on purpose. So
[music] you can feel raw reality, start
bleeding through the cracks a little
bit. It's a weird experience. It's very
strange. It's not completely
comfortable, but the book's written in a
way that skimming [music] through it
will do absolutely nothing. It took 2
years because I had to design every
paragraph to interfere with your
language operating system. [music] And
this is a language system we've been
living inside since childhood. But if
you read tongue, it's on Amazon and it
is just a cheap paperback. [music]
But if you read it line by line, the
book does something subtle [music] and dangerous.
dangerous.
It gives you perception back and it
brings the world in front of the word.
Starting today, Tongue is available on
Amazon. Read it if you're ready, but
it's not to understand anything. The
book's not going to give you a whole
bunch of understanding. It's going to
give you an experience to see the world
without the parasite jumping in front of
it. So, if this video crack something
open in you, I designed the book Tongue
to really finish the job. Either way, I
hope this video was interesting for you.
It gives you a new perspective on
language and
you can click the link down in the
description. [clears throat] Check the
book out on Amazon if it's interesting
for you. Either way, I have a statistic
that says like 49 I can't remember the
number. 50s something% are not
subscribed to the channel. Number one, I
know you hear it from every single human
being on YouTube that [music] likes like
like and subscribe and all that stuff.
it. That helps so much more than
people say. They pretend like it's not a
big deal. It's a big deal. So, if this
video was important to you, if this
video was helpful for you in
understanding uh or looking at language
in a different way, then please consider
leaving a thumbs up down below. It's
totally free and so is subscribing.
Thanks so much. I'll see you in the next one.
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