Oral Tradition and The Secret Sauce
Source: Generated by AI.
Long before the invention of writing, Oral Tradition was the primary vehicle for transmitting information. What we typically don’t think about are the emotional underpinnings.
If someone has the information you need, you must engage with them, and this provides a framework for an emotional exchange. Whether the questions are about survival, everyday matters, or the meaning of life, through the process of needs being met, an emotional bond is created.
This is the secret sauce. It is the glue that binds us to one another.
Orally-based cultures typically honored their elders, seeing them as precious reservoirs of knowledge. It gave elders purpose, and the young direction. It helped foster the emotional glue that held a tribe or a culture together.
In today’s world, one need not seek out an elder for knowledge, (or if so, only briefly). One need only look as far as one’s own hand, where Google lies in wait.
If the electronic world had the conscious intent of ‘taking over’ man, the software phase is completed. It has won us over psychologically. We are both fascinated and ‘driven’ to spend time with our devices. We ‘love’ them. It only remains to be seen how long it will take for the hardware to be developed, and the cybernetic phase of man completed. Oral tradition will be gone, and the era of “E.I.” Electro-Interphase begun.
Hell, it’s already here.
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