How would you respond to Socrates' objections to writing [0]? Especially: "You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings o

How would you respond to Socrates' objections to writing [0]? Especially: "You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of written words. You’d think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever. When it has once been written down, every discourse roams about everywhere, reaching indiscriminately those with understanding no less than those who have no business with it, and it doesn’t know to whom it should speak and to whom it should not." I often wonder if our ancestors, who were a great deal more private about things like techniques and guild knowledge, not to mention esoteric religious teachings, didn't have the right idea. Perhaps even the penchant for writing scientific articles in Latin and Greek was an explicitly chosen shibboleth to avoid the kinds of informational chaos we see coming to a head in the internet age of 2022. 0 - https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...