MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Phonetics, Mnemonic, Logogram
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. benjamin franklin was one of the founding fathers of the united states. A noted polymath, franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, and inventor. Writing seen as an intrusion into the life world, as something foreign. In phaedrus (370 bce), plato critiques writing, arguing that it is: Inhuman as it establishes outside the mind what should only be inside the mind. Unresponsive as the words can"t talk back; they always say the same thing; essentially passive. Destroys memory as individuals come to rely on an external source; writing weakens the mind. Written word cannot defend itself whereas the spoken word can. Falsifies as writing freezes dynamic orality into discreet objects. Literacy has a special status in our culture; it"s imperious, domineering, arrogant, overbearing. Ill- literacy is akin to having an illness and to being deviant.
