Orality & Literacy Ong: First half

What intrigued me the most about the first half of the book, Orality & Literacy by Walter J Ong, was the work he did about the oral cultures untouched by writing. I personally have never put that circumstance in to my perspective because in our society we presume that everyone is this planet is literal and can read an write like we can. Visually, the thought of never writing anything downs gives me the mysterious thought of whatever happen to their past? The reason our society has been able to improve itself and continue for this long is because of everything that has been written down. This ideal makes me question the fact about how they have survived so long.I mean, we are here today because of the medical research that has been handed down by generations through written scholarly reports for us to improve our health and well being. Times change as we continue to exist and keeping up to date on certain issues can keep their society from extinction. What I can say about this country is that everything I have learned from its history has been through text books, so how do they keep track of their history? How can the elder from these societies explain with altering the past their history to their younger siblings? This intrigues me because it gives me a perspective I have never thought to look into. We are usually so caught up in our personal world that we forget we have others living around us. The only relation I can have with this passage is the event on how I learned how to speak Spanish. My parents never sat me down and lectured me about Spanish. I learned everything they taught me orally. But as a took Spanish courses in high school to better my literacy in Spanish I came to the conclusion that a lot was left out. The reason was because as things were handed down to me things were altered like for say, slang. This is what I mean when I say orally centered societies can have issues passing down information to their younger members because things always get altered and cut shorter than their original version.