Images and Idol Potential

Not surprisingly, the new generation doesn't read. They like pictures. There is something more insidious about pictures than words. It is like pictures bypass a certain part of the brain that involves discernment. Both mediums create a world inside the person, except pictures are more difficult to evaluate because one would need to respond with a picture in order to converse. Perhaps the new generation is thinking in pictures. We do know that alphabet constructed language is more efficient than pictogram based language. I am sure this is a problem being studied by a diligent and perceptive social scientist. I am just talking here and will do a bit more reading to see how this idea pans out with respect to the thoughts of others.

My thesis remains the same: images more easily become idols than words. Until we return to a world of words we can expect negative effects upon societies as a whole. The current "lull" in overall violence, may just be a statistical flucuation.