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     Our obsessive concern with TV’s baleful displays of commodified images is well known.  It is a common lament that too many manufactured images and thoughts are invading our brains; that we have not been prepared for mastering this abundance; that too much pleasure is afforded too many ‘ignorant’; that too much knowledge is thrust into too many feeble minds.  What results, proclaims this thinking, is the unleashing of unknown appetites, mendacious images, un-realities.

     Of course, this grips many educated elites in terror.  Likewise, socio-radical critique often assumes others are incapable of knowing how to see, do not understand the meaning of what they see, do not know how to transform acquired knowledge into activist energy.  But there is a flaw in this reasoning, because: WE HAVE BEEN EDUCATED in the art of recognizing the reality behind appearances and the messages concealed in images.  Maybe too perfectly educated? 

     And now we smile knowingly at all the ‘ignorant’ who do see, but can never see all that we can see.

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