What is the obsession with spelling?  Written grammar?  What does it matter if I spell “youth” as “uth” or “yuth” or any which way.  Would you not still understand what I mean?  Does the misspelling of it make the point any less true?

 

(But that’s not how you spell it)

 

But what is the problem?  You read it, understand it, and its intention is clear.  What is really wrong?  What is the consequence of bad spelling?

(Stupidity and ignorance, because that is not how it is spelled)

 

Stupid and ignorant in who’s eyes?  Spelling is not a natural phenomenon.  It quite literally has nothing to do with nor has any affect on the natural world.  It is completely manmade.  We created it, and we mandate the rules that apply to it, those same rules that say “youth” is to be spelled one way and not another.  But, regardless of the spelling, we still understand it.  And no harm or consequence affects the world because man’s arrangement of symbols for the expression of an idea became altered.

 

(We cannot simply change anything however we want whenever we want because we feel like it.  We agreed on order over chaos.  We agreed on society)

 

On society, yes, but not on what that society should be.  Someone decided on that one long ago and we keep on following suit.  But I do not care for the same set of rules for society that you do.

 

(And majority rules)

 

In your society.  But, I do not believe in that either.  For one, a slim majority generally will not represent the vast minority.  Secondly, the few shouldn’t dictate for the whole.  In this society of yours, most always, there are the tipping few who sway along the middle line who elevate the minority of forty-nine percent to the majority of fifty-one percent.  Why do those few panderers in the middle demand far more responsibility and respect than the few on the edges?

 

(I thought we were talking about words)

 

Somewhere at some point in human history, a group of people began communicating with each other and they created sounds for things that eventually became words and eventually passed those new words on down the line.  And, hundreds and thousands of years later, we have become too lazy to ever ask, let alone change, these original few people…amongst tens of billions spanning across all of man’s history.  Why is that?  What of “majority rules” then?

 

(It’s a word)

 

It’s a grain of sand on an entire beachfront.  My point is, what if that beachfront was instead grass, or rocks, or something completely different?

 

(Then it wouldn’t be a beachfront anymore)

 

The water would still be there.  It’s location wouldn’t have changed.  The rest would be the same.  Would existence be worse off?

 

(Then what would you like to happen)

 

I really do not know.  I am not proposing the changing of the world right now.  I’m just questioning the status quo.  Why aren’t you?

 

 

 

 

 

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(written with pen on paper)