Anthropology

It is difficult to be held accountable for conformity. Most people have successfully undergone ‘socialization’. To what degree could our sense of right and wrong be subject to further scrutiny?

How does the use of our language change — whether intentionally or unintentionally — in the face of adversaries? Also when faced with social insinuation and posturing, versus expositional language or intent? 

There is ‘biological language acquisition’ and ‘cultural language acquisition’. The latter is what Lacan called ‘castration’.  The former, Chomsky claims, and also Dr. George Lakoff can be taken to imply, is primarily the acquisition of an internal ‘language of thought’: a mapping of empirical relationships between muscular systems, and the concepts with which they are correlated, onto a formal system.

A formal system which can be manipulated with the syntactical operations called ‘grammar’.  The latter is simply ‘verbal behavior’. In a blanket fashion, we call this ‘communication’. 

We are particularly interested in failure modes to universal grammar in systems with adversarial processes.