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The Assault on Free Speech
It took me about 12 hours to sort of regain my composure because I actually couldn't believe it to begin with. There are representations of the magical power of speech that predate Greece and Christianity. You see it in Mesopotamia, the equivalent to the Savior in ancient Mesopotamian was Marduk. He had eyes all the way around his head, which meant that he paid attention to everything, but he could speak magic words. And so that idea of the of the centrality of speech to the fabric of reality has strived to make itself manifest for thousands and thousands of years.