Language

I'd like to defend my argument that language=intelligence. To draw a comparison, it isn't so different within our own culture, today, to classify a certain ability as the most "intelligent." For example, those who are up to date on technology are revered as being the most intelligent in our society. The reason that they are seen as such might have to do with the fact that technology makes processes easier, much like language made communication and administration easier for many countries. However, the beauty of great hand-crafted art will always be more beautiful than great graphic art, simply because there is a sense that it has remained from the beginning of time; and to be timeless is something ineffable. Similarly, old languages will always have that same effect. Language can be like an old decrepit house overgrown with weeds and foliage. Few know its secrets, but those who do have quite the story to tell. There is beauty in the unknown and even the little known, sometimes just because it is subversive; but more so because the familiar, even if objectively pleasing, doesn't always entice. There is a great beauty in something that is dying; maybe that is why things come and go in cycles, because just when we realize how great something is, it's already gone.