My favorite Samuel Delany story is about a woman in a village who invents writing, and teaches it to all the children. She makes a rule that you're never allowed to write down people's names, as it will inevitably lead to keeping records comparing people, and thus leading to strife...

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booleandilemma 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

There's a good Ted Chiang story about how writing conflicts with a village's tradition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...

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le-mark 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I haven’t read that one, do you know of a collection that has it?

	▲	sdenton4 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I believe it's in Tales of Neveryon, 'the tale of old venn.' The whole series is extremely incentive and goes on some very different directions... The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals in 'Flight from Neveryon' was also particularly mind blowing.