The Power of Words

To be an artisan in the 21st Century, you need tools: data, coding, paintbrushes, technology and ideas.

Words… I once thought, had lost their utility as instruments. That they were products of the past; vestiges of previous, outdated, power structures.

I think that some of the people in power today, the 1% of leaders and purveyors of our global climate,  are guilty of undermining the truth and efficacy of words.

They almost had me fooled. I bought into the idea that words were now decorative and trivial features, or clinical / antiseptic instructions to follow.

The post-truth Trump era has provoked my appreciation to the honourable services that words once performed. As a history university student, the past events, ideas and habits of living were my bible; my intellectual bread and butter.

Words are conveyers of truth, fact; of what is the present, how we interpret the past and the blue-print for our future. It is our most treasured tool of honest communication; our most primitive and rudimentary instrument for existing.

This is my attempt of being an artisan of words.

This blog, my playground and sound board for word play and 21st C ideas.