This is the punchline from a comic that I follow. You can read the full thing here, but it’s the last bit that really grabbed my attention.
Aliens are surveying our downfall, and concluding:
“Imagine billions of tiny brains whose only connection is language.”
Because YES! If we really were limited to language as our sole means of communication, “that’d do it” indeed.
Language—a largely left brain, intellectual attribute—is merely a metaphor for something much, much deeper.