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Ep. 17 – Learning the Human Game

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Rules of Language and Ethics

To disobey the rules of English is not a crime. All that happens is you're not understood, he says. We don't feel any violence exercised upon us when we observe language's rules. If you want to get on with people, if you want to have friends, you've got to speak this language,. That's all there is to it. He adds: "We should be creative in ethics"

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