What oral history is seems to be a gigantic version of active listening. The art of retelling what you've heard someone tell you. This seems to make up a large part of peoples lives. I could definately be wrong concidering I am running out of time writing this but as oral history continues to pass from person to person or generation to generation it always looses something. We can only take a maximum of 100 percent of what someone says and pass that on, eventually someone in this hyped up gossip train slips up and something is lost until over enough time all is lost.
What a bad ending "all is lost", I can do better. I'm missing something because everyone in the class hasn't devolved into monkeys or frogs. Let's say instead these words evolve. No oral story can stay exactly the same, if we learn from these story than something is gained. More importantly if something is gained it's most likely a form of evolution.
As each person gains the knowledge of the last we apply that knowledge and use our own life experiences to reflect on it and make it a story with lessons based on what we learned. Do those lessons transfer to the next or are they only meant for us? Does it matter?
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