Trump and Ong
Walter Ong teaches that a characteristic of oral thought, as opposed to thought influenced by writing or print, is its reliance on the aggregative over the analytic. Here is the wise Ong: Oral expression...carries a load of epithets and other formulary baggage which high literacy rejects as cumbersome and tirelessly redundant because of its aggregative weight. It serves the need of memory (there is nowhere but the mind to store expressions in oral cultures) to describe Odysseus as not simply Odysseus, but wily Odysseus, Athena not just as Athena, but grey-eyed Athena, Nestor as wise Nestor and so on. This is recall before we could look at a script or a book or hit return in a Google search. The oral Trump Enter Donald Trump and his collection of adjectives that crystallize themselves onto the modified. Lying Ted Cruz Crazy Bernie Sanders Little Marco Rubio 1 for 38 John Kasich Crooked Hillary Clinton Goofy Elizabeth Warren Low Energy Jeb Bush ...