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@july
When writing was first invented / it was seen as an unnatural removal of who we are and offloading it to an external tool. Plato warned against it, Socrates thought it lessened us by removing our pure ability to remember. But now, think of all the wonderful pieces of literature that have emerged since. Pinnacles of human achievement and essays, fiction, poems - because human culture no longer see it as an external “technology” - it is simply part of who we are
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@degenveteran.eth
All I remember is some of the oldest known writings are about the same thing we complain about today... Our younger generations don't listen to us (them as in the elders)
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