This system is broken but not because we can’t see the symptoms; those are remarkably obvious. We ask the wrong questions. We’re so busy asking what words to use that we forget to ask, \u201cWhy write?”<\/p>\n
Words are what makes us different from the other apes. Chimpanzees can drink ants through makeshift draws. They masturbate and cheat on their chimpanzee girlfriends and wives. The similarities. Modern humans are more eloquent, not quite refined; we have commandeered the larynx. Guttural groans eventually became poetry. But Shakespeare is not possible without the first caterwauls. The noises that sprang forth from that almost human. Cautiously translated to, “That one is mine.” Or, “I fuck her, not you.”<\/p>\n
And now we go to the moon and fear death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This system is broken but not because we can’t see the symptoms; those are remarkably obvious. We ask the wrong questions. We’re so busy asking what words to use that we forget to ask, \u201cWhy write?” Words are what makes us different from the other apes. Chimpanzees can drink ants through makeshift draws. They masturbate … <\/p>\n