Why Write in a World Drowning in Words?
4 questions about the most powerful technology ever created
Why do you write? Why do I write?
A periodically puzzling question.
Writing is so prolific across human societies, so enmeshed in human affairs — it’s easy to forget it is an artificial technology NOT a natural, organic occurrence.
Writing… is… in a sense artificial intelligence.
There is no way to write naturally — in comparison to how we speak and make sounds naturally. (No infant writes a postcard to their mother saying “I’m hungry!”)
Writing is a powerful technology used for good (like self-help and support) and for bad (propaganda and hate) — and in many shades between and around those two poles.
It’s easy to forget this in the current age of social media and Internet use — with over 5 Billion people using both/either.
The use of writing — the technology of writing — like everything in our world… changes, shifts, transforms. Yet, it also cements, solidifies and stagnates. Paradoxical, it is.
As you read this sentence. Writing is changing, shifting, and transforming. It is also causing things to change, shift and transform — in your brain, for…
