Ways of seeing are ways of thinking

Last week, we have done a listening exercise WAYS OF SEEING on the class. To me it was very difficult to understand. And to be honest, I did not think highly of it at first. Because the vocabulary is hard comprehend and clearly the video had been produced for several years. But three minutes later, it caught my eyes and mind. As he said that A lot of parts of seeing depends on not only natural but also habit, society, tradition and so on. It is completely correct! Like old Chinese saying, ‘one thousand people read the RED TOWER, it must have one thousand Lingdaiyu.’ (RED TOWER is the greatest litersry works in China and Lingdaiyu is the leading character ) For the reason that everything or everybody we see it thought our own ways. Let me give a simple example, an red apple, peasant see what is the breed, retailer see how much profit after sell it, painter see the colour and shape, and I ,I just see the thing that I can eat it. Therefore the ways of seeing indeed are the ways of thinking.

This video is finial part of a program which had produced in 70’. The main idea in this part is to what extent the publicity influent our live. In our daily live, we are surrounding by publicity. It seems they have a large number of contents and forms, but practical it just send one information —— consume. It also seems our live quality depends on buying something. We could transform richer, eleganter, smarter if we buy the product which they recommend. We have no reason to refuse the commodity because we all want to be enviable and glamour. While we could never achieve this level, so we need the assistance of publicity from beginning to end.

Publicity is also special overwhelming that we never think about query it. Like the politician, publicity do not respect for factual accuracy. And the difference is publicity never be condemned —— they are natural liar. We could not query publicity for the reason that they have substituted our mind. Thus we were to be deprived the right of distrust.

Seeing is continue, and, we have no choice!