In my book I’m making the argument that media forms condition how we think, and the conditioning is so profound that it can prevent us from understanding other perceptual realms. For example the world of print literacy has led us to form a world that is characterized by certain ways of being that are different than oral cultures. Print and the alphabet are primarily from the left-brain and the oral/aural reality is right-brain and acoustic. I make the argument that it is easier for the the spherical thinking of the right-brain to integrate the left, than the other way around. As I was thinking about this I remembered that little book from high school, Flatland (available free at Project Gutenberg). I did a quick search and found these clips on YouTube. Yeah, I know they are a little cheesy but they make some good points about the difference of seeing via too specific a paradigm.
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