Harold: While government is wasting lots of money on the perpetuation of print literacy, I think the economy is overflowing with spending on the next literacy. It was the Phoenician traders that brought the undoing of Greek oral culture. Nowadays Apple, Blizzard Entertainment, Linden Labs, Electronic Arts are teaching the next literacy.

I was encouraged by Mark's description of oral culture being fluent in recursive structures. If we return to oral patterns of comprehension, that bodes well for living in nature instead of against it, relating to other cultures instead of invading them, and replacing factories with more organic forms of enterprise. All those changes require an ability to read cycles, non linear dynamics and opportunities for small changes to come back around in a big way.