Absolutely loved this piece! Moltes gràcies! I wonder what your opinon is on recovered languages like Cornish, almost dead Occitan dialects, Astur-Leonese, etc. as tools to fight standarization and/or 'easier-thinking', assuming less languages correlate to less complexity in people's thought, and subsequently less capacity to imagine and grasp new ideas. Also, Catalunya is this weird half-state that needs multilinguism to remain relevant and I (personaly) believe does not quite achieve it's goal, probably due to the role state-capitalism has had in it. It's also interesting to see that the Catalan government is probably the only government that helps mantain Occitan, which kind of makes sense since it is Catalan's twin tongue and one dialec is official in the state, but is also probably because broader knowledge of Occitan would mean broader influence of Catalan speakers and the state itself; but does it in a way that seems almost shy. Nontheless, and I know you Peter must already know, catalan anarchists have long been traveling to and sympathising with occitans.
I think it is important to fight the loss and extinction of languages because every language is a unique way of relating with the world. But there is no easy solution because a state protects (one variant of) one language but usually causes the extinction of other languages.
Absolutely loved this piece! Moltes gràcies! I wonder what your opinon is on recovered languages like Cornish, almost dead Occitan dialects, Astur-Leonese, etc. as tools to fight standarization and/or 'easier-thinking', assuming less languages correlate to less complexity in people's thought, and subsequently less capacity to imagine and grasp new ideas. Also, Catalunya is this weird half-state that needs multilinguism to remain relevant and I (personaly) believe does not quite achieve it's goal, probably due to the role state-capitalism has had in it. It's also interesting to see that the Catalan government is probably the only government that helps mantain Occitan, which kind of makes sense since it is Catalan's twin tongue and one dialec is official in the state, but is also probably because broader knowledge of Occitan would mean broader influence of Catalan speakers and the state itself; but does it in a way that seems almost shy. Nontheless, and I know you Peter must already know, catalan anarchists have long been traveling to and sympathising with occitans.
I think it is important to fight the loss and extinction of languages because every language is a unique way of relating with the world. But there is no easy solution because a state protects (one variant of) one language but usually causes the extinction of other languages.