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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

Very Bad Wizards

The Differences Between Oral Cultures and Written Cultures

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Is there an empirical claim in there about what auditory life is? Like, could we go to pre-literate cultures now and actually see that they have some sort of a different sensory experience? I don't think it's crazy that the written word has completely changed the way that we think. "Even something as basic as what do we consider true Will be changed based on whether we are brought up in this visually focused, literate environment"

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