The plunge into depth experience via the TV image can 
only be explained in terms of the differences between visual and 
mosaic space. Ability to discriminate between these radically 
different forms is quite rare in our Western world. It has been 
pointed out that, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man 
is not king. He is taken to be an hallucinated lunatic. In a highly 
visual culture, it is as difficult to communicate the nonvisual 
properties of spatial forms as to explain visuality to the blind. 
In the ABC of Relativity  Bertrand Russell began by explaining 
that there is nothing difficult about Einstein’s ideas, but that 
they do call for total reorganization of our imaginative lives. It 
is precisely this imaginative reorganization that has occurred 
via the TV image.

     The ordinary inability to discriminate between the 
photographic and the TV image is not merely a crippling factor