Communication, Privatization, Language

Modern Philosophy goes astray from the outset.  What Descartes is doing at the beginning of his Meditations is not sitting in a chair, gazing at a fire, as he describes it, but, quite plainly, sitting at a desk, and writing.  So, if he had conducted his search for Certainty more rigorously, he might have arrived at the discovery that "I am writing this" must be true whenever it occurs.  Accordingly, his foundation would be "I write, therefore I am".  Analogously, Locke's original tabula rasa is not the locus of Secondary Qualities, as he proposes, but the surface on which he inscribes the words "tabula rasa".  Now, from that axiom, Descartes could have proceded to classify Writing as a species of Communication, and then argue that his self-evident ability to write proves the existence of others, which demonstrates that his concept of Meditation is an inherently social procedure.  On that basis, the sundering of the 'I' from that procedure is exposed as privatizing Philosophy, and as concomitantly abstracting 'language' from Communication, and reifying it.  So, his Meditations begin as a portrayal of Descartes as Humpty Dumpty jumping, with respect to which the more recent 'private language argument' is one more problem for king's horses and king's men.