“The Compulsive Communicator”
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This is the title of the final chapter of David Attenborough’s “Life on Earth”. it is an apt analogy of the current desire to keep in touch.
Indeed, fom the early rudiments of speech, like the grunts of Neanderthal Lok in Golding’s “The Inheritors” to the oral traditions of Norse and Anglo Saxon, African and Indian folk tales, from cave paintings in Almeira, to runes and illuminated manuscripts, from the sophisticated language of the Greeks and Romans, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Keats, the flow of Joyce, to the insatiable desire to phone, text, twitter and blog, from Bebo, FaceBook and MySpace, Friends Reunited to newsfeeds, alerts and instant messaging…people truly are “compulsive communicators”
