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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