[MD] Social Imposition ?

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Case]
Since writing seems to have developed independently in various parts of the
world and since nothing defines a culture so much as its language I am sticking
with multicultural.

[Arlo]
I wouldn't use "multicultural" here, but it was certainly dialogic, and hence
collective. At the barest minimum, it took a negotiative effort from two
people, and as it was molded and shifted over historical-time involved the
collective labor of countless individuals. Without the "collective
consciousness", the mythos, such an endeavor would not have only been
impossible, it would have been pointless.

There is the continuing "myth" expoused here that "collective activity" denies
"individuals". It doesn't. Those cells that form the body are not "ordered to
do so for some greater good", they are not "obedient to a social authority",
they are individual cells following their own sense of DQ, and in doing so
collectively a larger, greater pattern is able to emerge. Writing is a larger
intellectual pattern that has emerged over historical time due to the
collective activity of many, many individuals. Were it NOT for our collective
activity, we would have no "writing", not only in its origin, or its
transmission, but also in its very content.