I feel like this is both probably true and the uncertainty from policy shocks is still higher than a year ago

Total home sales are still lower…not enough buyers to meet the moment. FTHBs are also a record share of purchases. BUT I like the optimism

This list is not exhaustive, I am aware. Not sure the scope of what it reflects, but the reality is unfortunately worse than this

*laughs in X*

All of these examples use the written word *as a vehicle* in a wider oral culture which is implied and *not written*.

Now that the written word is so easy to create and share, so ubiquitous, it serves a different purpose, or importantly - purposes. It shows which team we’re on (do we say Columbus Day or indigenous people’s day), it shows if we’re in on the joke (do you get the reference?), it’s meme’d and reshared.

To elaborate on this, when the written word was scarce (limited to publishers, hand written artifacts), it served a set of premium objectives with mostly static context. It cost money or effort, and was meant to inform, document, persuade.

The written word can be serious, ironic, memetic, depending on the wider oral/cultural/group context.

All of these examples use the written word *as a vehicle* in a wider oral culture which is implied and *not written*.

Now that the written word is so easy to create and share, so ubiquitous, it serves a different purpose, or importantly - purposes. It shows which team we’re on (do we say Columbus Day or indigenous people’s day), it shows if we’re in on the joke (do you get the reference?), it’s meme’d and reshared.

To elaborate on this, when the written word was scarce (limited to publishers, hand written artifacts), it served a set of premium objectives with mostly static context. It cost money or effort, and was meant to inform, document, persuade.

I think an important point here is that this is the result of the flood of the written word in our information space to the point that it is *fungible* based on the context in which it’s used.

The written word can be serious, ironic, memetic, depending on the wider oral/cultural/group context.

Conor Sen unleashed

And criteria for social selection is much different. When IRL humans make friends, they have to deal with people around them, their differences, the nuance, etc if they want to have friends. Online humans can be much more dismissive/selective. We really are a different species socially now.