Let’s consider the idea
of building a world through communication for a moment. The world that the text
speaks of is perspective based. If we take the broadest definition of
communication, one thing interacting with another, then our entire view of the
world is based solely on communication. It takes into account the use of all
the senses available to us, and the limitations of those senses. We learn about
everything around us, whether or not it can speak, by using our senses to
observe it.
If we shorten the scope
to limit ourselves to human to human communication, we begin to build a
society. As we share what our senses are telling us with others, and they the
same, we gain new perspective and even understanding of the world we build. We
then develop a culture based on like beliefs, or perception. One of the core
ideas that the culture here in America was founded upon was freedom.
Even in its founding,
the leaders of this country and in our culture, we still had to develop a
better understanding of what freedom meant. Hence the end of slavery, the civil
rights movement, and even today we continue to work towards giving everyone an
equal opportunity to pursue happiness and find success, however one may define
it.
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