THE word “audience” comes from the Latin audientia – a hearing. People gather to listen, and an individual or group is given the opportunity to be heard. It is basic democracy.
But more fundamentally, it is an instinct of our species. Homo sapiens is a social animal. Culture, the systematic transmission of experience, is how humanity has survived from prehistory to the age of the iPhone. Not even the most reclusive could last in a vacuum.
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