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Writing forces Jiang to shorten, moralize, and sanitize the same story because written words leave the intimate relationship and expose the author to outside judgment.
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Literary Culture
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the human imagination so when you move from oral to written literary culture then into digital culture what you're seeing is a less of..."
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In oral culture, intimacy allows play, experiment, curiosity, and adventure; in literary culture, the imagined watcher produces shame and self-consciousness.
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"Maomao closes her eyes, prays to God and says, dear God, I wish for a room full of chocolate every day. And that's how..."
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"...words. Do you understand? Why am I doing this? Why has literary culture changed the story? Because now I know that the words leave..."
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"...You understand? Do you see the difference between oral culture and literary culture? In oral culture you can be intimate. Therefore you can play...."
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"...the human imagination so when you move from oral to written literary culture then into digital culture what you're seeing is a less of..."
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"...inspire us to create great literature. And then you have a literary culture. So the Jews were expected to be people of the book...."
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"...So it is our prejudice, it is our belief that a literary culture is superior to an oral tradition. It's harder to read and..."
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"...own soul if you think about it. Let's contrast this with literary culture. In literary culture reading and writing you have to do it..."
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"Right? So this is the oral tradition in contrast with literary culture and visual culture. The oral tradition is extremely complex. We tend to..."
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"...insistent on maintaining their old tradition and not transitioning into the literary culture. Because their old tradition is what gave the community purpose and..."
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"...did we lose the old tradition? Well we transitioned to a literary culture that emphasized reading and writing. So in school we have you..."
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"...other. All right? Now, we live in a writing culture, a literary culture, where we don't actually speak to each other. We mainly just..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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