Early writing was less sacred and ideological than administrative, a way of creating and describing the world as a dominating elite wants it to be.
Perhaps it's because I grew up in Stalinist Poland, Dr. Michalowski said, but I say coercion and control were early writing's first important purpose, a new way to control how people live.
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