Silence…………… And then it began. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Time went by, words multiplied, separated, divorced and groups of them set up nuclear families. The Word was split, God and His glorious wisdom were fragmented and we had the babel of languages; a shard wisdom being a coveted piecemeal of each language.
Aeons passed and millions of tmcft of water has flowed down each of your favorite rivers but the wisdom remained in silos. Then came the noble English conquerors – come on give the devils their due, it was they who gave almost the whole world a single language to communicate in (although Indian English and American English are as different as radish and cauliflower). And all of a (gradual) sudden, wisdom had a chance to coalesce, albeit in varied dialects.
Cometh the hour, cometh the idea. The time was ripe and the need reached a tipping point; hey presto, sms language made its grand entrance. A new universal language was born, and oh boy, did it take the world by storm!!
Yet the cycle was not complete. When the entire wisdom was initially a single word, don’t multiple words convey abridged, sullied form of wisdom? The obstacles in the journey towards perfect wisdom seemed insurmountable when Messers Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey made their grand entrée. With Tweeter appealing to popular imagination, wisdom was pressurized to distill itself of the impurities and fit into 140 characters, an unimaginable feat one second post the tower of babel debacle.
We are still far, but 140 characters is pretty close to one (big) word. The next goal then ….. Silence once again; journey towards total Silence being the ultimate objective. But I fear that this time around, the little devils who call themselves Google engineers would find ways of placing ad even in silence.
Something like ….silence…. silence sponsored by Silent Gas Cutters….. silence….
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