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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Biblically and generally, poetry was used often to communicate some of the most difficult, weighty, and controversial topics. What comparable means of communication (recognizable formatting, high info density, etc.) do we use often today?
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NGL the first thing that came to mind here is memes and viral formats for online content.
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I think there's something v beautiful & effective about how the common denominator in these formats is an exponential improvement in the clarity of language.
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Replying to @nwilliams030
I think they're less expansive than poetry though. (And I don't say that in a snobbish way — I'm not even a big poetry fan.) The you can get remarkable bandwidth from memes over deep shared structures, but I don't think it can let you convey partial messages like poetry does.
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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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