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Originally Posted by mezzanine
You appear to lack a basic grasp of both history and the point I was making.
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Oral cultures have not "given way" to literacy, unless you mean that Western expansionist empires did their level best to commit genocide on indigenous cultures that have a strong oral tradition.
Oral culture - history, storytelling, Dreamtime - is very much alive and well in many of the cultures in my country, despite the strenuous attempts of my ancestors to wipe it out.