Low Orality Reliance describes people who primarily learn from written text. Even LOR people still use their innate orality expressed with music, drama, stories, etc. Still, the difference to HOR culture is that they prefer to learn from written text, often seen as superior to orality methods of communicating news, important information, and truths.
When the Bible came from Gutenberg’s Printing Press about 500 years ago, he didn’t know that his invention would forever change the world. For the first time in history, the written page was within reach of the illiterate masses and even fueled the Protestant Reformation. Truth and information from the mouths of sages and songs were now stored and studied in books and libraries. Before, everyone was HOR. Now the West took a new path—reading, writing, and reasoning.
