Eating Out Our Substance TV eats books. It eats academic skills. It eats positive character traits. It even eats family relationships. But TV eats the principles of people who are supposed to be responsible, transforming them into passive servants of the Cyclops.
TV eats our substance.
There was an air of unreality about many details of daily life. You saw the same phenomenon again in the recent war in the Gulf. War isn't a program. It is a dirty, bloody mess. People are killed daily.