When Writing Replaced Sensitivity: Art, Ancient Memory, and the Babel Effect
Humanity invented written language.
But in doing so, perhaps we lost the ability to feel the subtle context that lies between the lines.
Art speaks in a different way.
It can express the invisible.Can we recover our lost sensitivity through art?#ZONEproject #ArtAsLanguage… pic.twitter.com/t1mYOnw660
— MoriKei @VR Musician (@morikei20) June 10, 2025
Most of what we know about history comes from what’s been written—mainly from the Roman era onward.
But what about ancient civilizations before writing existed?
I believe they communicated through art instead of text.
Cave paintings, geoglyphs, sacred geometry…
Perhaps… pic.twitter.com/egIrjitjWs
— MoriKei @VR Musician (@morikei20) June 11, 2025
Humans invented writing.
But in doing so, we may have lost the ability to feel the “context between the letters.”
There are things writing cannot do.
It cannot transmit pure sensation.
Art can.
What writing fails to capture — deeper meanings, raw emotion, spatial awareness —
art can still hold.
Can art restore the sensitivity we’ve lost?
Ancient civilizations did not have writing.
That’s why our understanding of history is largely limited to what has been recorded since the Roman era.
But why didn’t they write things down?
I believe ancient people communicated through art, not through text.
The cave paintings, geoglyphs, and monumental carvings we find today were not just decoration —
they were language without letters.
Back then, perhaps this was enough to understand one another.
Over time, however, that sensitivity faded.
The story of the Tower of Babel tells of a God who gave humans different languages to divide them.
What if that was a metaphor for the fragmentation of shared sensitivity?
With each new language, we lost the common “sense” we once shared.
And now, it’s incredibly difficult to get it back.
But art remains.
Art holds the power to transcend language.
It may yet reconnect us — beyond tongues, beyond time —
to the forgotten soul of humanity.
#ZONEproject #PowerOfArt #SensoryRevival #TowerOfBabel
#CulturalMemory #AncientCommunication #ArtBeyondWords #VerloreneEmpfindsamkeit
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