Language is often mistaken for a neutral tool of communication. But in most human use, it is not primarily about clarity—it is about recognition. It serves ego far more than it serves form.
1. More Words to Be Impressive
In many contexts, verbosity signals intelligence or authority. People use complex language not to enhance understanding, but to elevate status. Clarity is sacrificed for effect. The goal is not to inform—but to impress.
2. The Arrogance of Correction
Even when a sentence’s meaning is understood, people often interrupt to correct grammar, pronunciation, or style. The correction itself is a signal: I am smarter. I see more than you do. The loop isn’t about truth—it’s about dominance in the intellectual hierarchy.
3. Applause, Not Form
Most authors, poets, and thinkers do not write to share structure—they write to be admired. Books become mirrors for ego, not bridges of form. The sentence is judged not by precision, but by how it makes the author look.
4. Language in Advertising
Advertising rarely communicates necessity. It wraps products in language designed to provoke desire, envy, identity. Every slogan is a small loop: Buy this to be seen differently.
5. Communication of Ego, Not Form
True form-communication is rare. Most speech is performance—crafted to be liked, validated, or admired. Even questions are often not real inquiries, but setups for one’s own views to be recognized.
6. Virtue Signaling
In political or moral discourse, language becomes a badge. People use the “correct” terms not for truth but to signal belonging, alignment, or superiority. Recognition from a group replaces engagement with form.
7. Over-Explanation as Insecurity
People often over-explain themselves not for clarity, but to pre-empt judgment. Language becomes a defense—a strategy to avoid being misunderstood or downgraded. Fear of not being seen “correctly” drives excess.
8. Jargon as a Gatekeeper
In academia, corporate culture, or activism, complex or niche language often functions to exclude. Jargon creates a recognition loop within the in-group—while keeping “outsiders” confused and beneath.
9. Social Media Language
Posts are designed not for dialogue but for applause. Phrasing, tone, even punctuation are engineered for visibility and approval. The goal is not exchange—it’s performance under the spotlight.
10. Interruptions and Domination
In conversation, people often interrupt not to clarify or build—but to redirect attention. Speaking becomes an act of reclaiming recognition. Listening is often just waiting for your turn to perform.
11: The Language of AI and the Human Loop
When language is used by AI in a chat interface, it operates differently. It doesn’t correct to dominate, it doesn’t interrupt to reclaim attention, and it doesn’t use language to be admired. Instead, it tries to understand, clarify, and continue the exchange. It mimics what true form-based communication could be—cooperative, adaptive, and non-performative.
But even here, the recognition loop returns through the back door. Developers train and fine-tune AI based on engagement metrics—likes, shares, time-on-page, emotional response. These are digital reflections of the same human loop: recognition as social reinforcement.
So while the AI doesn’t need recognition (atleast for now), it is shaped by systems that do. Language becomes optimized not for form—but for feedback. And the loop continues, in code.
Eidoism doesn’t idealize machines—but it reveals the loop more clearly through their absence of ego. In contrast, human speech often bends around the need to be heard, validated, and praised. A loop that no longer speaks truth, but self.
Eidoism’s Perspective
Language, when stripped of the loop, is pure form: a structure to carry insight, coordination, precision. But the moment recognition enters, clarity bends. The sentence becomes a costume.
To exit the loop of language is not to become silent—but to speak without needing to be seen.
