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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