The Myth of the Invention of Writing

There's so much good stuff in this writing versus speech section, I already gave it. The account of scientific rhetoric is a kind of literally soul therapy, psychotherapy. That can only come through engaged discourse where words can actually be questioned and where the word has a sort of living presence. So here's another quote. You have invented an elixir, not of memory, but of reminding, and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom. It leads to forgetfulness because it discourages people from actually using their own memories when you can actually write something down. Yeah, you can't do arithmetic anymore. Google. Right. This is one God talking to another.