The characteristics of hieroglyphs are that they have multiple meanings, there are signs as well as symbols. They essentially proliferate, you know, the old kingdom, some 3000 BC had, I want to say about 100 or 150. The Persians invaded two and a half thousand years later with thousands of Hieroglyphs. So what does it mean to be a human being? What does it means to implement a human being in quotation marks?
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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