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Holy River of Flows: Words and Discourse in a Declarative Age

The Emerald

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How Does Media Friendly, Engineered Speech Distinguish Humanity From Its Breathing Core?

All sides of the political and social spectrum, all organized movements, it seems, find ways to stifle the animate relational flow between us in the interest of steering what is with a stick. Movements, media, religions, sciences, all manage to distance humanity from its breathing core. If you want proof, simply look at who ends up executing poets. Even those movements and ideologies that are closest to our hearts have to eternally guard themselves from developing an aversion to the poetry that would challenge them to ever replenish, ever bathe in the timeless and the new.

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