Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
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