Response 25: "'Time' Has Ceased, 'Space' Has Vanished. We Now Live In A Global Village"

The discussion and emphasis of this reading on the importance of experiencing the world through other senses than just primarily relying on sight reminded me the movie Avatar where they connected to a center/tree to experience and share memories. While I do agree that “time and space have ‘ceased’” in the sense that “these are meaningless terms when any event or sensation can be simultaneously experienced by multiple people in multiple locations around the globe” the same thing that is broadcast around the world can have different perspectives (164). So, in that sense I guess it is important to learn “to trust diverse sources—and senses—of information, shifting away from the visual (we trust the printed text) to the multimedia (different information modes, such as the speculative, graphical, aural, or countercultural)” (164). One reason perhaps, is in regards to how political events are portrayed in the media. One example can be how propaganda varied according to the different political atmospheres of different countries during World War II.  If were presented with such propaganda today, it would be important to not just trust the text but also analyze it (be speculative, take into consideration the culture and political views of the origin of propaganda etcetera).

We sometimes forget the connective power of technology and one example of that is “the funeral of President Kennedy…[that] proved the power of television” as it involved “an entire population in a ritual process” (177). Another example of including people globally an experience are the royal weddings in Britain.