Even if all of the entertainment on television was inoffensive to Christian ethics and of the highest artistic merit, its form of communication (and form of knowing) encourages the aversion to abstraction, analysis and reflection that characterizes our culture at all levels. Thinking is often hard work. Television's surfeit of instant entertainment not only provides relief from such hard work; it offers an attractive, alternative way of knowing that makes reasoning seem anachronistic, narrow and unnecessary. Kenneth Meyers
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