I don't think he had much of a problem contradicting himself probably. Can we talk about this idea of the oral culture and this idea of acoustic space? I was interested to see what you thought of this part But this is on like page six of the PDF of the interview where he's talking about oral cultures How they lived in a different acoustic space than literate man did. Our own western time space concepts derive from the environment created by the discovery of phonetic writing As does our entire concept of western civilization The man of the tribal world led a complex, kaleidoscopic life Precisely because the ear, unlike the eye, cannot be focused and is synesthetic rather than analytic and