Show 601

Speaking
My Language

Is it
possible to speak the same language but not understand each other? Of course it
is.

I
recently discovered that the White House is podcast friendly and while
listening to a weekly address by President Bush it occurred to me.

Eventually
uncommon information could become so ubiquitous, so fluid, that at some point the
language of conversations that confuse us, such as politics, could eventually
become everyday common concepts to all of us. 

Maybe
this is meant by the idea that we only use 10% of our brain.  I mean, we go through school and we learn basic
concepts. We learn math and science, reading and writing, and things like
that.  But there’s a whole world of
information out there that we don’t come in contact with on a regular basis and
as a result we tend to ignore it because it usually leads to confusion or
frustration.

It’s not
that we can?t understand all the information that is out there.  It’s just that it’s not common to us.  It’s not something that we interact with
everyday so we don’t pay attention to it. Then, when we do hear it, it’s new to
us and unfamiliar. Frankly, it’s confusing. So, we find ourselves being
frustrated by it. So, we end up not listening to some of the more important
things in life that directly or indirectly affect us most.  Like politics.

For
example, we know that politicians have their own language.  They deal every day with terms that we don’t
understand because we don?t use them.  To
some degree, that may be an advantage to them, but for the most part it’s just
how they do business, like doctors or lawyers.

However,
if as the ordinary citizens we understood some of these terms we might pay more
attention to what they say when they say it. And if we paid more attention and
understood the concepts, we might have a more active voice where we should.

One of
the technologies that might help bridge this gap is podcasting.  For example, today you can subscribe to a
podcast that is produced by the White House.  Currently, they publish everything from weekly radio addresses to news
briefs, and you can get it delivered right to your MP3 player. 

Now, I
understand that today only the people who are truly interested in that type of stuff
would actually subscribe to a Whitehouse podcast.  But, as this form of information distribution
becomes more and more mainstream, and uncommon information becomes more common,
then eventually the gap between the White House and the man on the street begins
to narrow. 

No longer
do we have to rely on a news sources to translate for us and ?explain? to us
what the politicians said.  Rather, we
can hear it right from their mouths and question their comments and actions
with our own brains. 

Keep in
mind that at first, what they say and how they say it will be foreign to us, at
least to some degree.  But, as we become more
familiar with the concepts, we will begin to better understand what they’re
talking about.

Now I
know what you’re thinking, politicians will always guard their words.  And if they know that we?re listening, they?ll
tend to use the least common denominator in language to talk to us, but the
sheer fact that they can talk directly to us is something that has never
happened before.

And that
is exciting.

Charles
McKeever

MyLifeMinistries.org

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