Comment by nonrandomstring

Nice riff on Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death". The focus is really on the danger of over-reliance on one faculty. But I suppose the same could be said for an aural-only world of radio and podcasts. I disagreed that video would be an edited "reality". Image is no more than the way the world looks as opposed to how it sounds or is described by text. Ultimately the ability to synthesise these faculties is what the phrase "common sense" really means. It isn't a stand-in for "bleedin obvious" or "what most (common) people think", it is that sense that emerges from an ability to create a world from sights, sounds, smells, tastes and also written words, so pf course I do agree that an over-reliance on any one mode of perception leads to minds that lack common sense.