Going back, but Week 1's lecture notes

After reading the lecture notes for week 1 (A little late!) I found the concept of the whole living in just 'orality' quite interesting. I think we take for granted how we can store and retrieve information for years and years, and think little of the time when only orality exsisted. I found the notes interesting in terms of imagining a little society that depended only on learning how to live their lifes from what other people in that society said, and how it all changed when print forms came along and people in these societys where exposed to all these other peoples ways of living their lifes, opinions etc, which undoubtedly then changed their own expeirences of life.

Also they could have had their own theory's of such and such event from the past - even if it not correct, which would then have possibly put down on paper and been passed to our generation and believed to be accurate.