Hannah Rosen
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first heard Nov 2024
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We are in some ways inundated with text.
Like I feel on a daily basis I read a much higher quantity of actual words than I used to.
So what is the difference?
Explain post-literate.
That's a really important word in your argument.
What does post-literate mean?
That was an excellent and fast summary.
But I also feel like one thing about this argument is it can seem like an elite argument that you and I and the people who read The Atlantic care about.
Like, it's sort of ironic that you write sort of, I don't know how many words it was, a 7,000-word, very well-written piece
to explain how your generation doesn't really read or have an attention span anymore.
So I actually want to dig in a little more slowly and deeply to why reading is important, because we can summarize it quickly and just say to people reading is important.
But I think until you actually understand the shifts that happened in human evolution or a brain via reading, it doesn't seem that important.
I mean, like, I read what I want, leave me alone.
So maybe we'll start with the work of Walter Ong.
I love his work because he's a priest, so everything he writes about and thinks about has a spiritual dimension.
He was also a teacher.
So talk about how his work around oral traditions versus written traditions and how they change the brain.
Yeah, there's this quote you referenced from Amusing Ourselves to Death, the 1985 Neil Postman book, writing freezes speech.
And I think what he meant by that is that speech happens fluidly, but writing inserts a pause, and that pause allows us to reflect, shape our thoughts, and all this metacognition is happening when you write that doesn't necessarily happen in speech because speech is constantly moving.
Is it something like that?
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