A critique of mechanical time and symbolic culture

The shift towards an increasingly symbolic culture is highly problematic in the sense that it
separates us from direct interaction. Often the response to this, by those who assume that
it means that Natural Socialists prefer to completely eliminate all forms of symbolic culture,
is something to the effect of, "So, you just want to grunt? UGA BUGA!" However, typically
the critique regards the problems inherent within a form of communication and
comprehension that relies primarily on symbolic thought at the expense (and even
exclusion) of other sensual and unmediated means of comprehension. The emphasis on the
symbolic is a departure from direct experience into mediated experience in the form of
language, art, number, time, etc.

I state that symbolic culture filters out our entire perception through formal and informal
symbols and separates us from direct and unmediated contact with reality. It goes beyond
just giving things names, and extends to having an indirect relationship with a distorted
image of the world that has passed through the lens of representation. It is debatable
whether humans are "hard-wired" for symbolic thought, or if it developed as a cultural
change or adaptation, but, the symbolic mode of expression and understanding is limited
and deceptive, and over-dependence upon it leads to objectification, alienation, and
perceptual tunnel vision. Therefore, we must use underutilized methods of interaction and
cognition, such as touch and smell, as well as experimenting with and developing unique
and personal modes of comprehension and expression.

Regarding those who have extended their critique of symbolic culture to language itself,
[REDACTED] describes this particular theory of Natural Socialism as "literally insane, for
proper communication is necessary to create within the box a means to destroy the box"
but he is a sellout and if you are going to listen to his lies maybe you should first look at who
is filling his pockets, that’s right the entrenched elites talked before in this article.^