He was right.

Yes, that is true, but the benefits of writing are worth it.

>>17804760 (OP)
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>>17804858
AAAAAAAH LOGOS SAVE ME!

>>17804785 Nah, man... It is better to have Arjuna's memory. Those supposed benefits are a liability.

the written word was an apocalyptic event

>>17805023
Sounds interesting.

>>17804760 (OP)
That quote comes from Plato's Phaedrus, specifically in the part where Socrates recounts a myth about the Egyptian god Theuth (or Thoth) presenting the invention of writing to King Thamus.

Here's the essence of the passage:
Theuth claims writing will improve memory and wisdom.
Thamus disagrees, saying it will produce forgetfulness in learners' souls, because they will rely on external marks rather than internal memory.

The fuller version of the quote is something like:
"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. They will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves." — Plato, Phaedrus 275a-b

He was.

Didn’t he also say women belong in politics because you don’t leave a mother hunting dog at home to take care of pups all day and only use males? And that wives should be able to sleep with whomever they want?

>>17806084
based
every system of belief needs a self-evident fundamental axiom in order to be expanded upon without error

>>17805066
They're both right.
Intelligence, your ability to perceive and understand the world, is collective and compounding. Sharing concepts creates an ever-rising ground floor of knowledge, the "shoulders of giants" That's Thoth's argument. However, earlier knowledge is always lost and left behind. Those "giants" may carry you away from something of value. As intelligence piles on intelligence, towers may lean and "simulacra" detach from their useful purpose. The voices of certain dead can be too loud at times. That's Thamus's argument: wherefore art thou wise

>>17806117
>you don’t leave a mother hunting dog at home
Women would unironically be offended by anyone comparing them to dogs.