Atlas

Very interesting evaluation of what is gained and lost when oral culture is the dominant form of communication - one takeaway being that products like Clubhouse may reduce the quality of thinking, and make it easier to convince large numbers of people of mistruths - I think this is probably true but not too disconcerting as it doesn't look as though Clubhouse will &displace written mediums, just offer an alternative.
"The encroachment of oral culture back into the public sphere"
"African-American communities have remained close/closer to oral culture because of their particular historic experience"
"The shift from orality—the basic human condition—to literacy changed everything about our epistemology and our culture"
"The printing press replaced the natural, visceral human oral psychodynamics with those of literate and written one"
"Europe and the United states are thoroughly dominated by the written culture even though oral culture is still with us because orality is deeply and intrinsically human"
"his is particularly difficult to deal with for intellectuals who rely on their competence with, and dominance of, the written form as hallmark of their place in society"
"Print culture is a way of thinking and knowing and holding power"
"Writing, especially writing at length is a different modality of thought than talking and it also allows a different kind of exchange and discourse"
"Typography, which has the strongest possible bias toward exposition: a sophisticated ability to think conceptually, deductively, and sequentially; a high valuation of reason and order; and abhorrence of contradiction; a large capacity for detachment and objectivity; and a tolerance for delayed response"