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Plato was bemoaning the loss of skills needed for preservation of oral tradition because of the newfangled practice of writing. Kind of like the director of Naq
by slowmovintarget 7y ago
Plato was bemoaning the loss of skills needed for preservation of oral tradition because of the newfangled practice of writing. Kind of like the director of Naqoykatsi using heavy special effects technology to bemoan the effects of technology on society... just, less memorably than Plato.
- Amezarak 7y agoWriting was not a newfangled practice in Socrates' and Plato's time. It had already been culturally commonplace (or at least as commonplace as it was then) for generations.