The Starting Point

The Starting Point

The collapse of communication

On the words that stopped landing, the body that still knows, and the language that has yet to be named

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Anna Branten
Nov 23, 2025
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The world as we knew it is becoming quiet in a way that feels unfamiliar. We speak more than ever - messages, meetings, arguments, endless streams of text - but the words don’t quite make it through. They bounce back, fall sideways, turn into misunderstandings. We say the same things but mean different things. And in that silence - where the words remai…

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