Words define us, ' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.

Julie Kagawa
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When a society loses its knowledge, it loses the opportunity to be a society. When a society loses its humanity, it loses the opportunity to be a society. When a society no longer feels connected to one another, it can no longer function as a society. In this case, Mom was talking about the use of technology and how we should use written words instead of technology to share our knowledge with others. As I was struggling to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script, I realized that she was talking about the power of words and how we should use them as a means of communication and sharing information with one another.

Source: The Immortal Rules

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