The trouble is all in the knob at the top of our bodies. I'm not against the body or the head either: only the neck, which creates the illusion that they are separate. The language is wrong, it shouldn't have different words for them. If the head extended directly into the shoulders like a worm's or a frog's without that constriction, that lie, they wouldn't be able to look down at their bodies and move them around as if they were robots or puppets; they would have to realize that if the head is detached from the body both of them will die.
The quote from Margaret Atwood's "Surfacing" discusses the disconnect between the mind and body, highlighting the role of the neck as the source of this illusion. Atwood suggests that the separation created by language reinforces this false distinction, which leads people to treat their bodies like mere objects that can be controlled rather than integral parts of themselves. By imagining a world where the head and body are seamlessly connected, she...
