Words shape space. This idea of space we tend to limit to the physical, but space includes the virtual and intangible, such as social space, and psychic, emotional and spiritual space.
The Internet created a whole new realm, a virtual space, alive and organic and full of energy.
Any virtual, intangible space lives inside language. While an animal in the wild stakes out its territory with physical marking out of its boundary, and guards such with care and cunning, us humans use the tool of language to design our social space, referring to this with the word “society”.
Society is therefore the social space we create, generate and design. The Guyanese nation is a social space, much more than a physical country. The concept that we make up a unique nation means that we build a society, a social space.
It’s fascinating to study this aspect of life, our use of language to build civilization. For example, the Internet
