One very powerful quality of oral tradition is the malleability of the narrative which is lost when things are committed to the written word.

The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

	▲	skinfaxi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do you think we don't live in the world you describe? We are rewriting history constantly. You can always paper over artifacts with new ones.