Perception is gained only through the eyes. Vision is imperative. A prerequisite for survival. It is exceedingly difficult to state any essential difference between the barrel and the human. In a strict sense, every symbol is a living thing.
Symbolic unity is achieved when the barrel ceases to be a barrel and the human ceases to be a human.
Although writing still exists, the visual quality of objects, people and places takes on a new personae, termed images. Dramatic urges fulfill human desire and the act of perception is continually performed in the theater of life. To project oneself, one must have a sharp sense of self-conceptualization. People are now instinctively lured into the mystic power that lies in the nonverbal. What we once called verbal communication has died and given birth to a culture in which we speak nonverbally.