On: Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)

[tiberious726]

The illiterate weren't able to communicate outside of their immediate vicinity. They simply weren't part of the conversation

[mantas → tiberious726]

Illiterate couldn't read, but not necessarily didn't have critical thinking skills.

[tiberious726 → mantas]

And how would they tell anyone not right next to them what they thought? Word of mouth certainly isn't an answer, ever played telephone?

[mantas → tiberious726]

Critical thinking does not depend on sharing those thoughts. Not sharing a thought does not make it less critical and vice versa.

Let alone that with your train of thought critical thinking must have not existed before literacy became a thing.