actions within one's local community. It is only then that the computers and
even books will really begin to nourish us in a way that is more benevolent than it is destructive.
Oral cultures are necessarily storytelling cultures, which are inevitably place-based cultures -
because the stories that thrive and live in this valley will be very different from the ones being told
on the other side of this mountain range. Rejuvenating the primacy of the sensuous world -
renewing our solidarity with the more-than-human locale - is only going to happen by
rejuvenating oral culture. Face to face storytelling, and all the things that go with it. Rituals,
community festivals, collective and good-hearted initiations of the young men by the older
men, and of the young women by the elder women, community celebrations honouring the
seasonal changes.
David Abram during an interview with Derrick Jensen entitled ... Alliance for Wild Ethics || The Perceptual Implications of GAIA
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