11-15-2016, 07:38 PM
Hi Ice,
Excellent post. Writing will soon be gone, excepting secretive groups as in "Soylent Green". Burning the books, erasing the past is the path of totalitarianism. The U.S. resists this, to our credit.
In a Platonic dialogue--I'm not going to Google--the new invention of "writing" is discussed. Only a very few could write or read of course. Plato concluded that writing deprives the interchange of discussion, the reactions, the personality of dialogue, and, it would not last except as a curiousity and accounting tool.
He was wrong. Writing developed into an art. The confusion it can now cause is nowhere more apparent than the information overload that has resulted from the Internet. Your average Civil War soldier could write with eloquence. Today's students can only print, but that would be sufficient.
Writing makes you clarify your thoughts. When I started writing, though I'd had many classes, I had to go back and study punctuation, as I was unclear about how to string thoughts together, and I never had a "punctuation" class.
Writing takes thought, acronyms don't. I applaud you for including this day.
Spankster
Excellent post. Writing will soon be gone, excepting secretive groups as in "Soylent Green". Burning the books, erasing the past is the path of totalitarianism. The U.S. resists this, to our credit.
In a Platonic dialogue--I'm not going to Google--the new invention of "writing" is discussed. Only a very few could write or read of course. Plato concluded that writing deprives the interchange of discussion, the reactions, the personality of dialogue, and, it would not last except as a curiousity and accounting tool.
He was wrong. Writing developed into an art. The confusion it can now cause is nowhere more apparent than the information overload that has resulted from the Internet. Your average Civil War soldier could write with eloquence. Today's students can only print, but that would be sufficient.
Writing makes you clarify your thoughts. When I started writing, though I'd had many classes, I had to go back and study punctuation, as I was unclear about how to string thoughts together, and I never had a "punctuation" class.
Writing takes thought, acronyms don't. I applaud you for including this day.
Spankster