The Alphabet Was One Thing When Applied

In Antiquity And The Middle Ages Reading Was Necessarily Reading Aloud.

There Are Many People For Whom 'thinking' Necessarily Means Identifying With Existing Trends.

Most Of Our Assumptions Have Outlived Their Uselessness.

Until Writing Was Invented, Man Lived In Acoustic Space: Boundless, Directionless, Horizonless, In The Dark Of The Mind, In The World Of Emotion.

In The Phaedrus, Plato Argued That The New Arrival Of Writing Would Revolutionize Culture For The Worst. He Suggested That It Would Substitute Reminiscence For Thought And Mechanical Learning For The True Dialect Of The Living Quest For Truth By Discourse And Conversation.