Ong Chapter 1 put into terms even I can understand

Chapter 1 description 

Ong outlines research done by himself and other scholars which aims to describe between oral and literate cultures.  He defines the oral culture (primary Oral culture)  as totally unfamiliar with Writing.  He reminds us that primary oral cultures are actually in the majority and that from a historical standpoint writing is pretty damn new!  Among the 3,000 or so languages which currently exists only 78 have literature.  Our membership in a society as completely committed to writing and print as ours has, made it necessary for him and others to describe primary orality in relation to literacy.  The necessity, he went on to say, led to the use of stupid terms such as "oral literature" one which "reveals our inability to represent to our own minds a heritage of verbally organied materials except as some variant of writing," even when the have nothing to do with writing what so ever!  Its the Scholars say the darndest things!