Dr. James Fitzsimmons

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.

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