for their children, something darker and
             dangerous. Of course, the television that they were raised with stressed old-fashioned family
             values: respect for elders, kindness to neighbors, do your homework, eat your broccoli. The shows
             that children and young adults watch now are very different. We see insults thrown left and right,
             especially in comedies, where we learn to laugh at other peoples' embarrassment and enjoy their
             discomfort, hoping to hone our own wit to be as sharp and cruel. Again, the jokes and images
             come very quickly, passing through our visual cortex and into the recesses of our brains before we
             have a chance to ponder, discuss, and dismiss them.
             The reigning kings of speedy information, of course, are television advertisements. In
             these, the images zoom by so quickly that we often don't realize what we have seen and remember
             only one or two images, those that impress us most and make a false connection to our emotions.
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