The Written Word
We are literal, scientific, rational, surface-oriented, and fast-paced. Yet without imagination, the world becomes arid. Mythopoetic language is magical; it brings worlds into being. Stories of warriors hunting the windswept plains, gods who trick and deceive, maidens transformed into sea monsters, and spiders that weave the web of life have long
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Scribal 500BC to 1550:
Literacy – even when only for social elites – transformed the oral paradigm. Plato's Socrates stood at the transition between the Oral and Scribal paradigms. In the Phaedrus dialogue, Socrates recounts how the Pharaoh explained to Thoth that this invention would destroy our “memory” – pointing towards the fundamental
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