Chris Blattman

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How to achieve social change?

From a softer world.

h/t @georgedarroch

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  1. Social change is the result of cultural change, and cultural change is possible only by recreating spoken-word language. The relationship between the emotional effects of the SOUNDS of words and what they are used to represent establishes our sense of how we are affected by those things and hence, their meanings. The roots of our current languages are thousands of years old and therefore our various world cultures are also that old. Our clever technology gives us the power to blow up the world while our relatively primitive cultures do not provide us with the wisdom to correctly use that power. We must evolve culturally as fast as possible. Discover for yourself the effects of the vocal components of language (the phones) by saying them out loud repeatedly until you sense that effect. Each word is a story about the thing it names, told by the emotional effects of its sounds. The alphabet itself appears to tell our culture’s story of a person’s life.
    Please contact me for more on this.

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