{"id":17703,"date":"2019-05-15T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17703"},"modified":"2019-05-13T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:05:04","slug":"communication-error-parrot-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/05\/15\/communication-error-parrot-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Error<\/em>: Parrot juice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\nthought that I saw a parrot; a flock of parrots flying freely here\nand there\u2014parrots everywhere. Although I am not entirely sure if\nthey were parrots or not. As I stared intensely out of my window I\nwitnessed a colourful figure ascending from one corner of my eye to\nthe other; in a blink it was there and then it was not. Perhaps it\nwas never there at all? I surmise that it must have been a parrot.\nBut why? \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstractions swimming around that are now being poured into their new form\u2014a new body, a new vessel, a rebirth (words?). Consciousness\u2014rather, a socially conceived consciousness\u2014has us believe that what we can see and hear is all a part of our conquered world, all of which is within our control by the use of language. But why do we think that we know what something is just because we can name it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Communication Error<\/em> is a column in every issue of Nexus<\/em> looking at communication issues.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Life is nothing but\nriddled with transitions, blinking on and off with everything\nstarting up just to end up stopping again. It is as if teleporting\nand shape shifting were used by science fiction solely as a metaphor\nto try to explain this very real phenomenon around us. If a seagull\nwere to shape-shift into a parrot would we need to write it down, or\ncould we simply enjoy staring at it? Similar to how others often tell\nus that we need to prepare for this and that, go here and there, we\nneed not consider the this and that for themselves, that is, the\nexperience of their blinking, because they are everywhere. Or are\nthey? \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strings and things,\nconnecting dots, and waging invisible wars. Invisibility cloaks\npainted with the murmurs of those who have suffered for them to\nbecome unnoticeable. Now visible, the beast is sighted, identified,\nand rectified as it is no longer caged by the cloaks that previously\ndescribed it (language). Inference allows us to believe that we\nknow\u2014we understand\u2014what we saw and that by creating a name and a\ncategorical number we can identify our visions and place them neatly\nin the drawer next to our paintings of photographs. Although one\nthing was always forgotten to be mentioned to us, for as fast as the\ntap runs the water out of it, it always evaporates just as quickly\nbefore it ever reaches our hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought I saw a, I\nthought I saw a…\u201d For those who are old enough to want to finish\nthat sentence with a yellow-bird-like voice, I must ask you: did\nsomeone think they saw you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought that I saw a parrot; a flock of parrots flying freely here and there\u2014parrots everywhere. Although I am not entirely sure if they were parrots or not. As I stared intensely out of my window I witnessed a colourful figure ascending from one corner of my eye to the other; in a blink […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-may-15-2019-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17704,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703\/revisions\/17704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}