Words….what a great gift to the planet. What would we do without them? They say most communication is non-verbal, such as body language, or more dramatic gestures like when a woman throws her drink in a man’s face. Now that’s communicating! But, if most of what we “say” is without words, then would it make little difference if there was no such thing? All of us walking around communicating with our facial expressions and hand motions. Maybe we would get our feet, hips and shoulders involved. Having long hair would be an advantage since we could fling it this way and that. What would a Presidential speech to the nation look like? We could just mute the TV and absorb the brilliant monologue of body motion. I bet the stoners would love it. No doubt they would watch a lot more news and be so much more informed. A raving Saturday night would be spent sitting in the 31 flavors ice cream shop mesmerized by the patron’s acting out their favorite flavor. Life would be so much more entertaining.
What would our hand written letters have been replaced with? Perhaps photocopies of our face folded up and mailed to our loved one. In the modern age we could have a library of face and body pictures to email to our coworkers or friends. Those with exceptional facial flexibility would be the brilliant and revered communicators of our day. Jim Carrey would be the President’s Spokesperson. Actually, he would probably be President. Think about it. If you watched several of the past Presidential speeches while muted, they would all look the same with very little clarity of the content. But watch an Ace Ventura movie on mute and you follow everything just fine.
Ha, see, every time you start reading something in my blog you think, “This guy’s an idiot”, but by the end you realize that I have a brilliant point.
Since we actually do get to use words and I don’t have to rely on my face and body to convey my genius, I will go ahead and be the first to say what you are all thinking. “Shawn Baker for President…..anything if it stops him from writing this stupid blog!”
