Week Seven Reading Reaction #2

I find the concept of "sight dominance" to be an issue from which there could be both great benefit and great loss. There is little doubt that our culture has become dominant in terms of being visual and because we have moved from an oral tradition to a visual tradition, there have been many advances. I am concerned, however, about the impact so much visualization is having on our ability to process information. There are two different types of processing that takes place depending on if the information is visual or audio. Given the fact that the majority of the information we take in is visual, the processing is different than audio. This may be one reason why there are more people are having problems with verbal communication especially with one another. People are so quick to avoid conversation in the name of confrontation when I suspect that the issue really has more to do with the fact that they are unable to verbally communicate because of the lack of an ability to process a thought and verbalize it. Visual communication does not require words to express emotion, however verbal communication more certainly does if it is to have any meaning.