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@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?

Iain McGilchrist's @divided_brain has an absolutely fascinating bit about the evolution of language which suggests that it went in this order: first there was music. Then there was poetry. Then there was prose. Music is the *primordial* language.

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).

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?