Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08367_Field_TCGG T132.txt

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culture and perception that make first, writing, and then,
perhaps, alphabet possible at all. (9)

     Wilson’s account of the years of perceptual training
needed to enable adult Africans to be able to see movies has
its exact analogue in the difficulties which Western adults have
with “abstract” art. In 1925 Bertrand Russell wrote his ABC of
Relativity , pointing out on the first page that:

     Many of the new ideas can be expressed in non-
     mathematical language, but they are none the less
     difficult on that account. What is demanded is a change
     in our imaginative picture of the world. . . . The same sort
     of change was demanded by Copernicus, when he taught
     that the earth is not stationary. . . . To us now there is no
     difficulty in this idea, because we learned it before our