I read a book this past year called "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business." I would HIGHLY recommend it to everybody. The basic premise of the author, Niel (sp?) Postman, is that televesion, by bombarding us with irrelevent information in small, bite-sized pieces of entertainment has conditioned the way we think and operate as a society for the worse- he draws a lot of parallels to Huxley's Brave New World. Go over to www.biblebb.com and do a site search on the title, and you'll find a little thing John MacArthur did on it.

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