Language is instinctual. Because we interact and we are social beings, we make sounds with our bodies and we give to this sounds a meaning. We try to get the ball to the other side of the field and my receptor to actually get it. 

We don't think in terms of language, we think with meanings. We have scenarios and images. Language just reminds us those images and meanings. 

Language is composed by three things:

• Words
• Rules: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology and Pragmatics
• Interfaces

I wonder what does Pinker mean by Universal Grammar? 
We all have verbs, nouns and connectors in order to express a sentence. How do we acquire this tacit learnt rules?

Our mind is amazing. And Language is one of the most complex things that humanity has ever achieved (society and the market may be others). Localized in the neocortex (the part that has evolved in our cranium lately), our language capacity is something we take for granted, but it is the result of millions of years of evolution. 

Warren Orbaugh, director of the Henry Hazlitt Center of the UFM   introduced us to his conference on the Philosophy of Capitalism showing the quote that is placed in the memorial of Thomas Jefferson :

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men."

This quote was used throughout the conference, on how philosophers had constructed on this idea, and how other philosophers had destroyed it.

Starting from Aristotle and John Locke, one can say the progress the ideas of capitalism started flowing. Using as premise that capitalism is basically conformed by individual rights and rights of property. The arguments of these philosophers were harmonious with these ideals, they celebrate human reason, they are not confident in democracy, and believe in the republic. Which is defined as a Common Law society.

But after that, philosophers like August Comte and Marx supposed that there is no way to know reality, and we live in a nominal world. That we depend in or predecessors and that our rights are absurd. These arguments deny what Jefferson mentions. And these destroy our liberty.

There are so many fallacies in these world, but there are agents that strive to know truth.

We went to a conference that treated the topic of Charter Cities overseas. The rhetoric of the speaker was really poor and his presentation was certainly unappealing. I didn't get the excitement out of it and I got kind of frustrated. 

His argument was based in how, technically and politically it was possible to make a floating city. But his presentation wasn't bearable. He made estimates that got up to 200 years from now. (How can you do that!). Also, the legal procedures and other characteristics were weakly exposed.

The Freedom Ship could be a good reference. But I prefer this over a conference which was really boring.