has been talking about how the internet is bringing us back in time from a written culture to an oral culture. I never fully understood what she meant until just now.
In an oral culture, gossip rules everything. He said, she said, and you can’t really prove anything. Truth is determined by rumor and reputation, or clout. Everything is socially determined. If you’re part of the right clique, you have the truth. If you’re not, you become like Cassandra, a prophet that no one listens to.
In a liter…
Some musings on what it was like to read PUA blogs & forums in the 2000s while in high school.