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If our children watch television for hours and hours before even learning to read and write, then there is a "neuro-cognitive" change taking place, as the vision of various types of images, not least violent ones, form the mind of the individual from an early age. A sort of new paideia where the child uncritically absorbs everything he sees, and becomes a "video softie" who no longer reads. The fundamental point of Sartori's entire essay, and on which the anthropological modification in question is then based, is that such an individual, not only immersed in, but even formed and developed on the priority of the image and no longer of the word, loses abstraction capacity.
Words are symbols, in fact, which activate mental representations, but in a higher sense most words are "abstract", that is, they have no counterparts in visible things, but are concepts elaborated precisely by the abstraction capacity of our mind difference between city seo expater bangladesh ltd and country for example . Then we have terms that refer to even higher and more important concepts for social and community life justice, legitimacy, legality, etc. , which in a system that gives priority to image could skip, taking with them the entire "social pact" – and that is what is happening in some ways.
Homo Videns is therefore formed on the mundus sensibilis , and no longer on the mundus intellegibilis , like Homo Sapiens . And therefore, from the world of concepts and mental conceptions we return to pure and simple seeing. If the "idea" as in Kantian logic is the binary into which we insert what we see and perceive, with Homo Videns this mechanism is tampered with and reversed. With the perceptive language prevailing to the detriment of the conceptual abstract one, drastically reducing the possibility of giving meanings and "connoting" reality.
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