Humans have been making the most of our Buzz-Concepts pretty much as long as we have been using language. The first Buzz-Concept, survival, was instituted and integrated into language use with a concrete purpose to streamline prehistoric men’s lives. It proved a colossal success; quality of life improved enormously and we began our journey of progression towards modernity with the enhanced “Proto-Global” thinking skills. The Proto-Global language -the first language- continuously evolved and existed in different varieties, spoken at different times and by different tribes. But it was the collective Language of Survival(ism). Once we had gotten really good at surviving, so to speak – once the benefits we had reaped from the first Buzz-Concept had become deeply ingrained enough we gained the freedom of creativity and ingenuity and eventually the Proto-Global population would see itself divided between themed groupings: THE Absolutist Originals (roughly today’s Orientalesques), the Original Sophisticates (roughly today’s Semito-Africans), the Original Freestylers (roughly today’s Blockfuls), the Original Representers (roughly today’s Nostratics), the Original Pinnaculars (roughly today’s Turkics).
At one point, the Original Orientalesques / “Origino-Orientalesqueys” fell into famine and ostracisation. They were being bullied and frozen out of the food chain in the part of Africa we all still inhabited, and to cope, they develop heightened senses, awareness, and reason. In their introspective traumatised haze, they learnt how to invent a new type of human language, creating for the first time a language that wasn’t related to nor descended from Proto-Global with a rigid survivalist philosophy. We had the Language of Sensitivity, with which the Origino-Orientalesqueys set about carving out their own path for themselves, encompassing a unique racial trajectory, philosophy and -importantly- view of human language. Today, Orientalesque/Amurian/Mongoloid peoples speak hyper-efficient languages of intellect – the “Conceptual-Abstract” Tongues. Other ethnic groupings learnt how to create their own special, tailored, unique varieties of human language from the Orientalesqueys’ exploits.
The Origino-Nostraticos, the ancestors of today’s Europeans, were not the first to hop on board. They took their time, really thinking their options through. What kind of language could they create that would serve them best? Eventually they went for the Language of Intuition or “Pre-Nostratic”. Some profound metamorphosising, a change of scenery/continent, and some tens of thousands of years later, we had the Nostratic languages of today. Proto-Nostratic was the Language of Enterprise.
THE Original human beings were the Orientalesques. Who are THE Nostratics? The Slavs of Eastern Europe, including the Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, Bulgarians, and the former Yugoslavian states. Why? Because they are so keenly invested in the institution of human language, perhaps the best vehicle for human advancement, intellectual progress, and discernment – which the Origino-Nostraticos knew.
The Slavic languages, Indo-European languages, buzz about perfection. How does that work? It’s about precision, really. They are very precise communicators, thinkers and agents in action. But the Buzz-Concept perfection can be very awkward and it makes the Slavs notoriously exacting, stringent and severe. This is the key to understanding the Slavic folk tradition and their openness to quirkiness: it’s an escape. No better example of this dynamic than Russian Zaum / зáумь poetry. Zaum language consists of neologisms that mean nothing. It is nonsensical, about filling space on pages and in minds for no concrete reason. The two Russian Futurist poets considered to have invented it are Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) and Aleksei Kruchyonykh (1886-1968).
Dyr bul shchyl • Дыр бул щыл
Dyr bul shchyl
ubesh shchur
skum
vy so bu
r l èz
^ Marjorie Perloff’s English transliteration
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