Neil Postman, who was a non-Christian so far as I know, made an interesting point in the opening chapters of Amusing Ourselves To Death. He analyzed the Second Commandment and its implications for how we learn and how that shapes our culture. It was amazingly perceptive, worthy of the best of the Puritans really.
Having information mediated to you through images really is very different than getting that same information through text or speech or rational argument. The pendulum for us has swung so far toward the images side that we don’t have the foggiest clue of how we are affected by it.
I’m not prepared to tell people to just stop watching movies or videos or TV altogether. I’m not prepared to do it myself. We should reflect on how different mediums form us.
