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Originally Posted by FlyGuyOU
Jacque Derrida says we create a prison with our language. He calls this prison the "Western Metaphysic" or 'phono-logocentrism' "The problem is, he says, is that we in the West are trapped by the voice. Trapped by our alphabetic writing which follows the voice. The voice is linear, in his view: there is only one thing happening at a time, a sequence of phonemes. On a larger scale, the unidimensional march of the voice is replicated in our linear view of history, what Derrida calls 'the epic model.' The bars of the prison, then are made of speech and of oral poetry, and the way out, in Derrida's thinking is through a writing and a literature that finally realizes their full potential by severing their connections with the voice."
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The voice can, and does, present a better characterization of thought than words alone. Even today, authors are occasionally invited to read from their works, even at large concert halls that are usually reserved for symphonies and operas.
It has been said that as great as his speeches and debating skills were, Lincoln had a high-pitched, bad voice - but apparently made good use of it . Had he not been assassinated, and lived till Edison's recording technology was invented in the late 1870's, we may have had records of his own voice.