Oral Culture Continues, Right?

The only way to get information reliably from generation to generation was to encode it in the form of a poem. Proverbs or all those things were memorable, right? And there's actually all this research about how basically they use the structure of like poems kind of through the Greek time or even sort of later on. The oral culture kind of- Even in the West said, it continues, right?" "Exactly," he says. 'Because whatever survived was by definition the best of what those people had to offer"