Fifteen Years Is Enough

The blog's author (Edmund Blair Bolles): Taken shortly before the pandemic when the whole world began to look a little queasy.Sometimes random forces seem to gang up on you. Shortly, I must renew my site name, BabelsDawn.com and Google tells me that shortly after that they will cease offering the free subscriber service whereby over 100 fans receive the blog in their email. Neither one by itself is a big deal and I'm sure I could solve both problems with a tiny amount of effort. But I have been supporting this blog for 15 years and I'm about done.When I started this blog I said I hoped it would become the site for news about the origin of speech. The statement made me laugh at its audacity. Was there even such a   thing as news about the origins of speech? It  turned out there was and for many years I posted something every week. (When I began I posted something every day, but that was crazy.)I changed my mind about a number of things.Before I began this blog I had no thoughts about the importance of attention, and now see it as critical to language and knowledge in general.When   I began this blog I took the selfish gene theory for granted, but switched to a multi-level theory of selection. I'd never have been able to believe that there is a serious selective power favoring individuals who speak well, but I can see that a community would benefit if it could more successfu lly spread knowledge among its members. (See the history of colonialism.)When I was about to start th...
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