[lit-ideas] Our Illiterate Ancestors
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:50:03 EDT
P. Stone writes:
"I don't think a lasting society could even possibly be 'founded' or ' based'
on illiteracy."
This sounds so irritatingly ethnocentric to me. Why, one may expect a Valley
Girl Speaking
"I don't think a lasting society
could even possibly be founded
or based without the cell phone."
All Judeo-Hebrew tradition was illiterate; many Greeks were illiterate; and
certainly the Iliad was recorded in a literate way HUNDREDS of years AFTER it
was repeated by what Stone mockingly calls the oral tradition. England had
the Angles who were rather shakey with their runes.
The most important (best) things in life are free, and literacy is _not_ one
of them.
To refute Stone,
"I don't think a lasting society could even possibly be 'founded' or ' based'
on illiteracy."
The Aryans (who spoke 'Indo-Germanic', later rebaptised 'Indo-European', and
later 'Indo-Hittite') were _illiterate_ for CENTURIES (in saeculorum
saecula, as Geary would have it). The spiritual forms they endowed us with are
only
_accidentally_ attached to the written word, to the literate word.
Cheers,
J L Speranza,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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