Although I will refute Farhad Manjoo’s assertion in “Post-Text Future” that the English language has recently experienced the phenomenon in which text takes a backseat while audio and visuals, namely multimedia, function as a universal language with more “sticking power,” as Manjoo writes. The Internet’s Only Boy raises the topic of democracy entailing public access to the public domain. While Swartz’s argument is logically valid, his argument does not practice logical soundness because the United States of America does not function under a democracy but rather a republic due to the Electoral College.
*switches channel because rebutting some hipster millennial at the New York Times’s assertion that multimedia has superseded text because of the nature of connotation and images’ adaptability than arguing about glittering generalities
I will implement “Self‐assembly: An intriguing relationship between structures of metal complexes and shapes of ancient Chinese characters” into Project 2 by providing evidence to support my assertion that western languages such as ancient Chinese, and to a certain degree, Mandarin, has developed a post-text readability among its readers since this article’s research points to metal complexes studied in nature by Chinese scholars sharing structural similarities with ancient Chinese characters. The self-assembly principle found in nuclear chemistry jumps out at speakers of these specific western languages, so Manjoo’s article does not hold weight when it states English only experiences multimedia superseding text.