B.McC: This does not get to the root of the matter. "The media" do not get into the game until the child has been infected with the values of his or her social matrix of origin -- what I call: an "ethnicity" -- thru *childrearing*, which the parents transmit to the infant before the acquisition of language.
---------------------------------------- Hi Brad, As usual, I enjoy reading your comments. What is mindboggling to me is most humans devotion to religion,(incl you as evidenced by your sig file quotes.) The leap of faith required to believe in dogmatically derived absolute values of ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysics is perhaps the highest order result of parental and societal conditioning. Cheers, Steve -- http://magma.ca/~gpco/ http://www.scientists4pr.org/ Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.--Kenneth Boulding
