Materialities of Writing # 3

Culture Shock

A culture using only crayons wouldn’t be to much different from out society. Crayons are used to give light and character to works of literature in art, so I think that this society would have much a much more vibrant culture where colors can often have deeper meanings. Writing and the arts in this culture would probably be emphasized more than in ours. I think that in this society a person’s ability to write and combine colors would determine how smart they were considered rather than their knowledge of math and science. This would give the other society a different perspective on a lot of things. For example,  their culture may hold authors and writers to a higher esteem than doctors and lawyers. I would be very interested in observing a culture where crayons are the only writing implements. It might cause me to to view subjects in a different light and I would like to see the outcome of a society that caters to the creative and artistic rather than the rich and famous. Even though I am not really fond of using crayons I enjoy seeing what they can create given the “right” hand.