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technology constituted by dilation or uttering (outering) of all
of our senses at once, are themselves immediately subject to
the impact or intrusion of any mechanically extended sense.
That is, writing affects speech directly, not only its accidence
and syntax but also its enunciation and social uses. (6)
Why nonliterate societies cannot see films or photos without
much training.
* Since the present object is to elucidate the effective
causality of phonetic writing in setting up new kinds of
perception, let us turn to a paper (7) by Professor John Wilson
of the African Institute of London University. For literate
societies it is not easy to grasp why nonliterates cannot see in
three dimensions or perspective. We assume that this is normal
vision and that no training is needed to view photos or films.