@Malcolm_Ocean persuaded me to try playing around with Twitter, so: hello. Here is a question I have, crudely put, tongue moderately in cheek: is writing bad? Should we, perhaps, stop doing it?
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I'd say prose/writing wins on density of information (e.g. symbols, formulas) and this is apparently what we as a society have chosen to prioritize, or won out.
There is so much information available in listening to a person sing a single word - it just isn't very *legible*. Which is to say, it's hard to *write down* = hard for the left hemisphere, bureaucracy, capitalism, etc. to process (more @divided_brain goodness).
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I think that's certainly true - do you know of any stories where song is the main form of communication? written in prose, ofc
Also: opera - manifests itself in melodrama & the extremes of emotion. Perhaps we'd be a more empathetic species if our communication was simply song? -
Musicals! Esp. ones that are fully sung through.
@HamiltonMusical's a fantastic example. As far as books,@PatrickRothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle is extremely concerned with song, and arguably the most important acts of communication in it are songs. - 4 more replies
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