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To: Neocon who wrote (49561)	6/7/2002 7:58:04 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Well now. Homer "wrote" in a pre-literate culture. We are discovering incredible wisdom in the oral histories, myths, etc. of many pre-literate or even non-literate cultures. Who knows what we have lost? But without writing, people developed their memories. They told stories. Keep in mind that bards memorized the entire Homeric epics. I doubt there is a single person raised in a literate culture today who would be capable of memorizing the Homeric epics in their entirety. A pre-literate culture was able to erect Stonehenge, which was both an engineering and an astronomical marvel. I doubt we could do as well today if we only had the tools they had. Just because we don't know what their wisdom was doesn't mean they didn't have wisdom. It just means they passed it on by oral tradition, not by written tradition.

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