What Would the World Do Without Books?

[Red Falcon]

Originally Posted by Quexos

... Be even stupider than it already is

Is that even possible ?

[JSWolf]

No books = no Bible and other religious equivalents. That might mean less intolerance and less wars. Not such a bad thing when you think of how crappy the world is now.

[latepaul]

Oral tradition. Storytelling has been around forever, religious and otherwise. Recently, last few thousand years, we've been writing them down.

Cute kid. Wonder if there's a preacher in the family.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by latepaul

Oral tradition. Storytelling has been around forever, religious and otherwise. Recently, last few thousand years, we've been writing them down.

Cute kid. Wonder if there's a preacher in the family.

Yep. Homer's works were passed on by word of mouth for example long before the Greeks actually wrote them down. Many rhymes like "Red sky in morning sailor take warning, red sky at night sailor's delight" came from our need to remember things in a time when writing wasn't a big thing. The druids wrote things on leaves (we still call the pages of a book leaves) and the written word had a magical effect on earlier peoples. We still ask "how do you spell that?" when an unknown word or name is mentioned to us.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Red Falcon

Is that even possible ?

Sure.
Very likely, in fact, even *with* books.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

No books = no Bible and other religious equivalents. That might mean less intolerance and less wars. Not such a bad thing when you think of how crappy the world is now.

No further religious comments outside P&R please.