[Opinion] Big Talker and Big Worker

``Text is everything. There exists nothing outside the text,`` utters the famous French philosopher, Jacque Derrida. A post-modern anthropologist goes so far as to say, ``If an ethnic group does not have a word for `orgasm,` the whole members of the language group would never experience `orgasm` at all.`` The statement might end up with the language determinism. They argue that the reality that we believe to be real is a product of language in reality. The word certainly does not end in with the word only. Language could significantly affect the thoughts and the behaviors of human beings.

It seems that more big talkers obtain more powers in our society, including the government, parties, industries, schools, profit organizations, and non-profit organizations. They might believe that, only by uttering flowery rhetoric, they could escape from their responsibilities and they could pretend to having done something without doing anything. In addition, they seem to believe that, only with a lip service, they could be congresspersons, Ministers, or even something higher. That is why many institutions and celebrities hire media consultants to deal with the press.

The characteristics of the big talkers are as following.

They always talk before they take action. They always try to cover something disadvantageous to them and fabricate facts to exploit his or her privileges. Once the cover-ups and fabrication do not work, they audacious enough to change their words or to perjure. And when their lies are revealed, they attribute the most responsibilities to others. Look around. Recently, big talkers are thriving and prevailing. They seem to have more successful samples.

Strictly speaking, the language does not compose the reality. Rather, the language composes only the `reference to the reality,` which could fit to the reality. People distrust the reference when it does not fit to the reality that the people have experienced. The most serious hazard in the world of the big talkers is that they discourage the enthusiasm of the big workers. Let`s us watch on the Presidential press conference on June 13.

Lee Min-Ung (guest editorialist, professor of the journalism study, Hanyang University)