Auditory vs Vision-Which is Stronger?

This is in response to the Presentation by Group 5-Valerie asked us to think about what is a stronger imput, visual or auditory. I think because as Ong points out we are moving into a second phase of orality, the secondary orality phase, where icons are becoming increasingly important and powerful in our culture, I would have to say that I think the visual aspect of memory is more important. Although I do believe that as the presentation went on I was able to pick up more of the auditory that was going on. And although I remember thinking that I would remember certain aspects or phrases that had been repeated, I realized while trying to compose this entry that I had missed out on remembering those ideas, I think that what Yates says about memory needing something visually memorable, grotesque, elaborate to aid in the recollection of memory seemed to be true. I remember that Joyce was being read, and I thought it was from Finnegans Wake, but then it might have changed, to another book. I also thought I heard something about the raven and how it is well regarded in the oral world. I also remember I think Cindy talking about if a story is not remembered then it is dead, or that words are dead if not spoken, I am not sure, and what is even more disheartening is that I remember hearing that and thinking that I would remember it, so obviously even the workout that my memory has had during this semester it is still a flabby outshape muscle. I think that our culture, especially college students, is so engrained in the notion of writing to remember things, that without my scribbles of notes, I was unable to retain the information. Yet I do think that when you put the two senses together you would have a easier time of remembering. Maybe if I had witnessed the performance I may have been able to retain the information, yet because the conversations seemed so erratic and all over the place, it may have been easier for me to remember without the visual distraction. It would have been interesting if the group would have done 10 minutes of just auditory, and then 10 minutes of just visual to see what we retained more. I think that our society had become so much of multi-taskers, and that we are so used to doing more than one thing at a time. Like right now, I am typing on the computer, I have the tv on, I have laundry in the washer, and am in the middle of cooking dinner, so that all of those distractions, or visual and audio noises work together. It reminds me of the article that Dr. Sexson brought up where one lady did not want to use technology, while the other want to use all of the technology at once. I think that is where our culture is, still engrained in the typography, but moving to a more oral iconic based society, heck we have a secondary oral president, so we must be moving in that direction, which I think is not a bad thing. It allows people who may not have access to education on a more level playing field, but the dominance in power still reigns with the written word, and the way in which to get that power is still through the written word, in the way we speak and write. So although we may be moving towards a more oral culture for social justice to reign we must still pursue the ends with writing.