Chapter 4
WRITING RESTRUCTURES CONSCIOUSNESS
"A deeper understanding of pristine or primary orality enables us to better
understand the new world of writing, what it truly is, and what functionality
literate human beings really are: beings whose thought processes do not grow
out of simply natural powers but out of these powers as structured, directly or
indirectly, by the technology of writing. Without writing, the literate mind
would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but
normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any
other single invention, writing has transformed human consciousness."
(Ong, Walter J., 'Orality and Literacy', p. 77)
Marsha:
Totally fascinating! I think the ideas presented in this book have a lot to
say about the intellectual level, as abstract thinking, and how it evolved and
differs from the social level. I hope I peaked someone's interest.
Marsha
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