Why Does Ong Claim That Orality Is Dynamic?

2 Why does Ong claim that orality is 'dynamic' in a way that is opposed to the static nature of literacy?

Orality is ‘dynamic’ in a way that all sound and especially oral utterance come from inside living organisms. Deeply typographic folk forget to think of words as primarily oral, as events, and hence as necessarily powered: for them, words tend rather to be assimilated to things, ‘out there’ on a flat surface. Such things are not so readily associated with majic, for they are not actions, but are in a radical sense dead, though subject to dynamic resurrection (Ong, 2012, pg. 33). In chirographic and typographic societies names are seen as labels, written or printed tags imaginatively affixed to an object named. Oral folk have no sense of
There is the Douay version produced in a culture with a still massive oral residue, which keeps close in many ways to the additive Hebrew original. Then there is the twentieth-century text each use “ands” in a compound sentence. The Douay renders the Hebrew we or wa (and) simply as “and”. The New American or twentieth-century text renders it “and”, when, then, thus, or while, to provide a flow of narration with the analytic, reasoned subordination that characterizes writing and that appears more natural in twentieth-century texts. Written discourse develops more elaborate and fixed grammar than oral discourse does because to provide meaning it is more dependent simply upon linguistic structure (Ong, 2012, pg.
Sounds exist only when it is going out of existence. The principal characteristic is the unique relationship of sound to interiority when sound is compared to the rest of the senses. It is different from sight because sight does not perceive an interior strictly as an interior: inside a room, the walls it perceives are still surfaces, outsides. Taste and smell are not much help in registering interiority or exteriority. Touch is but it can destroy interiority in the process of perceiving it. For example, if I want to see if a box is empty or full I have to make a hole in the box. Hearing can register the interior structures of whatever it is that produces them. A saxophone sounds differently from a flute’ it is structured differently inside (Ong , 2012, pg. 71). Sound has the ability incorporate everything when you look at something you see one direction. Sound allows you the ability to hear simultaneously from every direction at once. Interiority and harmony are characteristics of human consciousness. The consciousness of each human person is totally interiorized. A person doesn’t say stop kicking my body they say stop kicking me. You are part of the world in an oral culture because the cosmos is an ongoing event with man at its center. A sound-dominated verbal economy is consonant with aggregative tendencies rather than with analytic, dissecting