From Proto-Origins to Unknown Futures: The Odyssey of Human Language's Symbolic Flowering

David Boles: Human Meme

Since distant ancestrals first transmuted primitive utterances into expressive tongues, language has served as the very matrix binding fragile human experience. Through evolving linguistic means, generation upon generation encoded wisdoms, sung folk tales, invoked spirits, performed identities, and reached toward some tantalizingly ineffable understanding always hovering beyond the veil of the articulable. As millennia flowed onward, the manifold branches of our species' linguistic tree strained equally toward past and future - delving ever deeper into memory's fertile humus while constantly sprouting novel shoots from age to age. Communication's mysterious flowering has ever nurtured Homo sapiens' improbable growth through harsh lands. So come sit awhile beneath these rustling boughs of words; let us enjoy imagination's strange fruits ripened or still green. And perhaps certain seeds gathered here may find fertile soil in roles still to come.