What a strange idea: meta. Meta discourse, meta physics, meta language, metaphor. It's astounding how deep of a hole that humans can dig into the realm of intellect; so deep to the point that we have discourses on the concept of discourses themselves, language to communicate language, physics to explain physics, words to explain words.
However, in world exponentially increasing in complexity, I believe this is necessary to allow the comprehension, simplification, and classification of our newly found, digital data based, technology interwoven, constantly changing world.
In the light of literacy, this strongly calls for a greater necessity of the written and spoken word. Never has there been a time that literacy is more used in every day life for comfortable function in society. Only through strong literacy can one understand the numerous metas found in today's reality.
I agree...it makes me wonder if we can "go meta on meta" or what that would even mean. Diagrams and video might help get us there more than words once the levels start getting too complex, I'd guess...
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