in the learning process today; it is symptomatic of an age-old 
failure in Western culture. The literate man, accustomed to an 
environment in which the visual sense is extended everywhere 
as a principle of organization, sometimes supposes that the 
mosaic world of primitive art, or even the world of Byzantine 
art, represents a mere difference in degree, a sort of failure to 
bring their visual portrayals up to the level of full visual 
effectiveness. Nothing could be further from the truth. This, in 
fact, is a misconception that has impaired understanding 
between East and West for many centuries. Today it impairs 
relations between colored and white societies.

     Most technology produces an amplification that is quite 
explicit in its separation of the senses. Radio is an extension of 
the aural, high-fidelity photography of the visual. But TV is, 
above all, an extension of the sense of touch, which involves