Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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And it's an efficient thing.
It's like you print something out and you got the information, right?
This is a writing system that is purpose-built to be inefficient.
It's designed to be esoteric.
It's designed to be somewhat mysterious.
And again, that concept of like...
I am designing a writing system to be inefficient, I think.
I think it throws a lot of people.
It's like, oh, what do you mean it's not designed to be read?
It's not designed to work.
It's designed, purpose-built, to not work.
Not work well fast.
And you see that with the Egyptians, too.
Ancient Egyptians, I believe you had somebody, a guest on here was an ancient Egyptian specialist at one point.
That writing system is not... When they're coming up with it, it's not designed for everybody to read.
It's a really small group of people.
And over time, they come up with hieratic, and you're writing it a little bit faster and things.
There may have been a process happening like that for the Maya, too.
They didn't quite get to that point.