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cannot see directly.
To the student of media, the fact that “normal” right-
side-up vision is a translation from one sense into another is a
helpful hint about the kinds of activity of distortion and
translation that any language or culture induces in all of us.
Nothing amuses the Eskimo more than for the white man to
crane his neck to see the magazine pictures stuck on the igloo
walls. For the Eskimo no more needs to look at a picture right
side up than does a child before he has learned his letters on a
line . Just why Westerners should be disturbed to find that
natives have to learn to read pictures, as we learn to read
letters, is worth consideration. The extreme bias and distortion
of our sense-lives by our technology would seem to be a fact
that we prefer to ignore in our daily lives. Evidence that natives
do not perceive in perspective or sense the third dimension