Tell me when they get to Ezekiel 23:20
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Tell me when they get to the Song of Solomon.
The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee…
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I have to admit, tweeting the Declaration of Independence, 140 characters at a time is pretty inane. It sort of demeans the document. But maybe that was the whole point of the exercise.
Huh? How does it demean the document?
How can one demean a document? It’s text. Repeating the text is just repeating the text.
But why not say what ever it is you really mean?
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The point of cutting the document into bits of 140 characters each, and making an unreadable tweetstorm, might have been a commentary on how Trump has turned twitter into his channel for the President’s proclamations as well as personal insults and attacks, and how crass that is. Side by side, his tweets, and those of the millions of other idiots who use twitter as their soapbox, in my opinion, sullies the document.
That’s more a critique of particular users than the medium itself. Also NPR has been doing this for some time, no one is forced to read it so i don’t see what the deal is.
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I think what they’ve done for years is read the document, not tweet it.
And I think the 140-character limitation tends to stifle and dumb down the message and that’s the fault of the medium. And trying to convey anything much longer than one or two tweets is clumsy at best.
To be clear, they broke it into individual sentences and sections, which does isolate each sentence into its own stand-alone statement, breaking the Declaration into a series of individual ‘soundbites’. You could see this as somehow sullying it, but it also lets people read it piece-by-piece and save and retweet and favorite and comment on each individual bit. In my view, it’s more of a deep dive into the Declaration than a desecration of it.
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I still don’t see what the problem is. I think you’re projecting, if anything posting it in small chunks can bring some fresh eyes onto different sections of the document. Is it the best way to read it? Of course not, but saying that tweeting it denigrates the document is preposterous.
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It is the PERFECT document for breaking down into chunks. That’s how it is WRITTEN. If you don’t like how it’s written, that’s an entirely different matter.
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So when they were reading the document out all those years, was the “whole point of the exercise” also to “sully the document”?
Or is it more likely that they decided to jump on the “new media” bandwagon and thought tweeting it would be a modern and relevant way to get the info across to “da yoof”?
I can entirely respect your argument that twitter is not an appropriate medium to convey that sort of information. Hell, I can’t imagine doing anything in 150 characters which is why I stay off twitter.
I don’t see how you go from ‘it’s not a great medium’ to ‘they intended to demean the DoI’.
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No. I was suggesting that their point may have been to make a commentary on Trump and his use of twitter, not to demean the document. I just think that was an unintended consequence.
Thanks for clarifying. That really didn’t come across from what you wrote.
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Thanks. I couldn’t understand why I was getting so much pushback. I should have been more clear.
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