And the intuitive is left to astrology and mbti.
You do realize that the idea of the "intuitive" was thought up by Nazi collaborator Carl Jung, correct? How can you claim that an "intuitive" is a valid concept, and reject Jung? Ãs the idea of the "intuitive" the one thing Jung got right in your opinion?
Regarding science, what portion of your last post is backed up by actual science? What studies have determined that the printing press has changed our sense ratios? You claim to be enamored of empiricism (I am more of a rationalist, if anyone is wondering), but continuously do a terrible job of applying it.
Anyway, I'm more of a rationalist than an empiricist, although I recognize the value of empiricism.
Literacy changed our sense ratios and priviliged the visual.
But most of all litercy gave us the counter-intuitive cast of mind.
Where are these statements supported by any kind of scientific study? If it's just something you arrived at by pure logic, I can see where the privilege of the visual comes from, but where is the leap from that to "counter-intuitive" cast of mind?
Moreover, in everyday speech, the term "counter-intuitive", is used more often to refer to something that's against common sense assumptions, and has nothing to do with Jung's intuition function. Intuition deals with possibilities. If counter-intuitive were referring to that kind of intuition, it seems to me that saying that a thing is counter-intuitive would be saying that a thing is exactly what we would expect it to be. This is the opposite of how the term is used.
If anything, literacy takes us beyond what is immediately "sensible". Writing itself is a symbolic representation of another thing, not a thing itself. Writing allows us to gain an understanding of things that we have not witnessed directly with our senses. I wouldn't say that writing represents intuition over sensing, but it's equally absurd to say that it represents sensing because we look at it with eyes. I'm not sure why you are implying that writing is "sensing" over "intuition", since you regard MBTI and Jung as bunk, but if you could explain how you reconcile those thoughts, enlighten me.
Gotta get back to my weasel lair.