Kelsey Brooks - Alphabet

In Ong's Orality to Literacy book, he mentioned Julian Jaynes Theory. Jaynes theory said the main shift from orality to literacy was the right hemispher was producing uncontrollably voices. These voices were processed into the left hemisphere of the brain as speech. He said these voices began to lose their effectienesss. This period led to the invention of the alphabet. I found it interesting that how someone could just invent letters in a specific order due to the uncontrollable voices in their brain. I believe if the alphabet was not created, we wouldn't have anything written down today. There would be no books, religious texts, writing, etc. I believe we would be more "in touch" with the Earth as oral people were. Oral people spoke to each other through touch. There way of writing was much different than ours. The different practices they had represented who they were as a perosn and their culture. Today, we do not have that because we have too many resources. We rely too much on texts to tell us what to do and what not to do. I ask you this, "What would life be like today without any kind of books or writing?"