World as View and World as Event1

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Abstract
As a concept and term, “world view” is useful but can at times be misleading. It reflects the marked tendency of technologized man to think of actuality as something essentially picturable and to think of knowledge itself by analogy with visual activity to the exclusion, more or less, of the other senses. Oral or nonwriting cultures tend much more to cast up actuality in comprehensive auditory terms, such as voice and harmony. Their “world” is not so markedly something spread out before the eyes as a “view” but rather something dynamic and relatively unpredictable, an event‐world rather than an object‐world, highly personal, overtly polemic, fostering sound‐oriented, traditionalist personality structures less interiorized and solipsistic than those of technologized man. The concept of world view may not only interfere with the empathy necessary for understanding such cultures but may even be outmoded for our own, since modern technological man has entered into a new electronic compact with sound.

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