0047 Our capacities for phantasms_2b are adaptations to the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.

Each team talks in icons and indexes that are so distinct that they function as symbols in a symbolic order (a finite system of differences).  This is parole_2a.  Langue consists of the sign-objects of word-gestures that picture or point to their referents_2b. 

Our genus innately assumes that gesture-words_2a image and indicate things and states of things_2a.  Our human ancestors continue to think this, even when a new way of talking, speech_2a, gets added to hand talk_2a.  In the beginning, Homo sapiens practices hand-speech talk.  They do so for around two-hundred thousand years. Then, something radical happens.

0047 Humans drop the hand-component of hand-speech talk.  This is no accident.  There is an archaeology to the Fall.  Humans adopt speech-alone talk.  The semiotics of speech-alone talk potentiates civilization.

Speech-alone words do not image or indicate their referents.  Speech-alone deprives us of an automatic, intuitive answer to the team-oriented question, “What does this mean to me_3b?”  The thing that we picture and point to in our gesture-word_2a, where is it?

Oh, I know.  Let’s build an artifact_2a, an idol_2a, that will validate our spoken words.

0048 In our current Lebenswelt, we are deprived of the fullness of gesture-words_2a.

Evil is privation.  So, is speech-alone talk evil?  Are our phantasms evil?  Are our judgments evil?

They all suffer privation of the fullness of what they evolved to be.