Words and other endangered species

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9

Speech will always be more compelling than writing, and videos will always be more compelling than pictures. The age of speech gave way to the age of print, which was overthrown by radio, movies, and later television. The internet age has brought a regression to an ancient, tribal form of storytelling, hence the popularity of TikTok. 

Whichever medium becomes the most common will dominate the global conversation, similar to the way English has become the lingua franca of the internet and thus the world. 

Memes are the information weapons of this new era.