Issue178 今日说“法”+ 正反方面精彩意见超火爆！

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土土的问一句 大家在讨论reform和change的区别 那有没有注意到human nature 和 what s in people's hearts and minds 的区别呢？

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"The bombardment of visual images in contemporary society has the effect of making people less able to focus clearly and extensively on a single issue over a long period of time."
Does the bombardment of visual images in contemporary society have the effect of making people less able to focus clearly and extensively on a single issue over a long period of time, as the speaker claimed? Although there are some merits in the statement, on balance, however, I am tending to disagree with the author.
First, the fact that people cannot focus on a single issue is due to the richness of information. Owing to the visual facilities as well as the visual images, the whole world opens to us. Even the most skilled journalists and author cannot account for complete and objective details of a Ballanchine Ballet performance as well as the scene in the intersection of the Florence and Normandy Streets during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. And the world is more and more eventful, which leaves an onerous task to the book publisher and journalists to write down and disseminate all the events in printed form. Therefore, in any sense, the visual images give us more accurate and timely information of the things happened around us and worth our attention in a way (不可替代的).
Secondly, in the contemporary society, we should never focus on only one thing over a long period of time. There are too many things happened around us which we have to pay attention to and respond to, such as gang violence, AIDS awareness, poor education, unemployment and so forth. What is more, all of these things are intertwined with another, cannot be addressed with single mind. The visual images supply us an effective and efficient way to know about and deal with them all.
Admittedly, the merits of visual images cannot be taken too far. After all, they can show us the scenes and figures but never insight and perceive of the people related to them. However, when we are reading an article, the author adds his point of view to enlighten and guide us actually. And sometimes, they bombardment of visual images on TV and computer steals us attention and time for our families, community and coworkers. Before the popularity of television, the vision that a whole family getting together to read , talk, and play cards always haunts in my mind, but now it all yields to more than ten hours sitting in frond of TV.
In sum, whether we should focus on one issue clearly and extensively over a long period of time or pay attention to the bombardment of visual images around us should never be determined indiscriminately, which needs a case-by-case analysis.
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