Listening-Matthew Winkler

I guess this would be a freewrite since this is mainly just information that I have learned in my Interpersonal Communications class.
I learned about the different forms of listening and what effective listening looks like. I found out that people process words three times faster then they are spoken. This leg time for our brain gives us time to think about other things and no longer pay attention to what the person is saying. It is also why our television commercials are getting shorter because it is harder to get the attention of people watching tv. Well hearing this got me to thinking about how oral literate people talk to one another. A literate person when they speak to one another does not function in a close knit community as oral people do. There is a lack of importance in what that person says to one another. that person can just as likely feel they have more pressing issues and deems the person talking to him as unimportant. Now in an oral culture people must rely on each other more closely in order to learn the ways of the past and how to survive in the present and future. It is more of a necessity that they listen to each other. Literate people should also listen to one another but I feel they do not always do so. Oral people can also process the words just as fast I believe but they spend that time associating images and meanings, along with how interconnected what is being described to them with the past. Now literate people can do this as well but we don't always. We sometimes listen for the flaw in the persons logic or simply tune them out. Why do we sometimes engage in this behavior to one another? If we could listen as oral people do and then give constructive criticism instead of saying no you are wrong because then maybe we can get back towards our roots of communication.