WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist reassures a literary reader that it’s OK to communicate with images.
Even if GIFs and emoji are objects of misplaced scorn, I don’t think you’re entirely wrong in fearing that our relationship to language is changing., which swallows up words and spits out pictures, is itself a metaphor for how visual media is replacing text as our culture’s dominant form of expression. This shift started long before the internet, of course, but images clearly thrive in digital spaces.
If more people prefer to communicate in images, it’s not because these individuals lack “something to say,” as you put it. Quite the opposite, it is because visuals are a more immediate and effective means of articulating the fully embodied human experience, especially in the rapid-fire exigencies of the digital era.
similarly indicates that plain old words, when housed in the warmth of vocal acoustics, are more compelling than the spectrum of GIFs and emoji.
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