Thoughts from dinner with the woman I live with who's going through seminary: Old Hebrew poetry, specifically what we see in the Bible isn't differentiated by meter or rhyme, it's exclusively defined by a specific type of information density -
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no yeah you're definitely right - i think that's part of what's intriguing to me.
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Memes= easy onboarding, wide reach, narrow window of meaning Language (on avg)= medium onboarding, low reach, ambiguous meaning (highly contextual) Hebrew poetry= difficult onboarding, high reach, v specific meaning but highly custom **reach= ease of dispersion/virality (?)
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Of course, that may just be: meh. Like, I can use memes to say things I almost couldn't with prose. So that may be the same thing as what I'm hinting at with poetry. But I don't think expanding brain meme matches, say, Paradise Lost in letting you access some hard to reach places
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