A Word about Words V of XIII, or, A Certain Impasse

A: Language will take care of itself; there’s no need to  get ruffled up about it.  The decay you mentioned having witnessed in the world as it regards language is only a spell along language’s historical unfolding, which carries the ages of linguistic patterns to their fulfillment.  There’s no need to announce that you have detected the culprit of this increasing bastardization of the manner in which we speak, or to regard yourself, or anyone for that matter, capable of seizing control of language’s course and steering it clear away from its troubles, back into some kind of–respectability, of capability for diverse things, for stone-hard sternness as for pillow-fluff softness.  Say what you will, with all of your desperate wordiness: some things are out of your hands, without your capacity to save whatever foreseeing stutterings you might care to express.  B:  Say what we will…isn’t that just it?  Isn’t there some will in language and therefore some responsibility?  Isn’t there a saying the wrong thing–and a saying the right thing?  Isn’t there a difference here, and an important one?  Whatever you might say, isn’t that the truth of a good, truthful word?  That it commands us, yes, but then we obey, or we fail to obey.  Language seems ever to give us the option of speaking or of silence, or of giving our heritage a hard slap in the face.  A: Whatever you say…but I say differently and see and feel differently too.  You think we would ever obey language’s dictates if we were not forced to obey, if we were not already swimming in its tides, as it were, or trapped in the frustrating dead-ended passageways of its maze?  B: Whatever you say…right–or wrong; who cares?  We may speak from either side and language may laugh in our faces from her throne, from which she decrees that we exemplify our freedom, extending to our freedom to alter her, or decides to have all power invested in her and her alone.  But before we even get off the ground as far as assessing what our tongues could do is concerned, we should consider this: whether we are worthy of our words, or whether our words perhaps make a mockery of us, or are ashamed of us, or disguise themselves as different from responsible sayings, perhaps as distractions, or ruses or–excuses.  A: So you say what you want and I say what I want.  We MUST say something, therefore we say what we want, right?  It seems we might have reached a certain impasse….  B:  Or maybe it is this: we HAVE to want, we have to desire, we have to WILL, and therefore we have to take responsibility, and therefore we have to take responsibility for what we say, we have to will what we say….