The Written Word
This ability to construct narrative is more than just a skill we’ve managed to master, it’s become our very means of interpreting reality. Similar to our instinct for learning language, researchers have observed an almost universal inclination in children for absorbing and creating narrative. And our personal identities can be seen as the most intr
... See moreJoe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
Story has been the primary way humans have handed on information, taught lessons, evoked empathy, and formed cultural and moral viewpoints.
Marcia McFee • Think Like a Filmmaker
As the historian Yuval Harari spelt out in his seminal book Sapiens, the ability to tell stories was perhaps the major catalyst in our transformation from a relatively vulnerable savannah ape into an organism that would go on to completely rewrite the rules of the food chain. Our creation of both oral and written cultures, and the cooperative team
... See moreJoe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
The power of written records reached its apogee with the appearance of holy scriptures. Priests and scribes in ancient civilisations got used to seeing documents as guidebooks for reality.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
At first, most of humankind's ideas and stories were fleeting, bound to voices and memories as impermanent as the wind. With writing they solidified. And with paper, they became immutable objects capable of travelling through time. The medium, especially in its modern form, revolutionized knowledge, art, and the sciences. It liberated thoughts by a... See more
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