Friday, November 7, 2008

Nurturers and the Media

How media is dulling our natural instincts to be nurturers. Electronics for good and bad. How we can use technology not be used by it.

For example - Reality shows - where is the nurturer there? Where is the mom? Is this reality - if so then I don't want any part of it! I want a real mom who nurtures her children and others children! T.V. executives may accuse me of making up a fairyland but I say, like Puddleglum in C.S. Lewis' Silver Chair - "Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all of those things—trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones."

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