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Likewise, there is a course taught at the University of Houston that emphasizes the differences in thinking (and in values) promoted by visual media -- primarily the movies, and later on TV -- from the usual word-based and audio-based thinking of the nineteenth century. I guess you could call it gestalt thinking versus rationalism, or something like that. Someone who's studied these topics formally could supply the vocabulary.

Thinking has always been primarily image driven. It was precisely because they had clear images of the dynamics of human interaction, that the Founding Fathers had such a profound grasp of what worked and did not work in the human condition. What has changed, today, is that Leftists in control of most of the visual media, have been able to create false and exaggerated images, that compete with the data bank of experience, with which most of us operate. Thus Hollywood and Television have had an enormous and very socially deleterious influence, because of their bias.

I have addressed this situation at some length in The Persuasive Use Of Images. The subject is of immense importance, if we are to turn the tide, and reclaim Western values and the American heritage from those who are sytematically destroying both.

William Flax

What has changed, today, is that Leftists in control of most of the visual media, have been able to create false and exaggerated images, that compete with the data bank of experience, with which most of us operate. Thus Hollywood and Television have had an enormous and very socially deleterious influence, because of their bias.

Yes, I thoroughly agree, we have been subjected to the fire-hose treatment with a literal torrent of propagandistic imagery intended to shift and condition our political responses, since the days of Sergei Eisenstein.

The Left have always been liars, and I think they prefer to lie in pictures -- pictures are more difficult to call lies. Witness the long, winding Susan Sontag commentary on someone's posed montages of "Images of War". Sontag was't commenting on war directly, but through the refracting prism of another Leftist's depiction of it.