Ong/Baron post

I plan to address in my final essay the relationship between writing and language and how each relates to the other by examining the ideas of Ong and Baron's essays. I have been working on a theory discussing the concrete nature of written text and how it affects human education and discourse. After reviewing my Baron response I noticed that I fixated on advances in writing technology and how human ideology usually rejects then comes to terms with it. I could possibly discuss in my final esay how ideology must adapt to new writing technologies and how this relates to academic discourse and pedagogy. I also hope to further analyze the quote I addressed in Ong's essay, "[Writing] initiated what printing and electronics only continued, the physical reduction of dynamic sound to quiescent space, the separation of the word from the living present, where alone real, spoken words exist" (22). I feel this statement gives us a strong summation of one of Ong's main points.