Blog for 9/19/07

Something I found very interesting in the beginning of Memories Are Made of This was the story with Theuth and Thamos. The whole point of the story is that writing "is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence"(pg. 2 Bourtchouladze). And later on goes on to talk about Socrates and how how he basically says writing weakens the mind. I thought about this and at first I thought this wasn't true at all and very extreme. But, the more I thought about it the more I realized we've become dependent on writing and the individual memory is not crucial to our society anymore.