The handwritten Latin alphabet is closer to what it is like to be a human being than swiping on the smartphone. The Greek phonetic alphabet? Is that closer to being a human being? And Egypt's hieroglyphs are so different from our own phonetic alphabet in that these signs are symbols, they have multiple meanings.
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.
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