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The other side of the story concerns the fact that, in the
visually organized educational and social world, the TV child is
an underprivileged cripple. An oblique indication of this startling
reversal has been given by William Golding’s Lord of the Flies .
On the one hand, it is very flattering for hordes of docile
children to be told that, once out of the sight of their
governesses, the seething savage passions within them would
boil over and sweep away pram and playpen alike. On the other
hand, Mr. Golding’s little pastoral parable does have some
meaning in terms of the psychic changes in the TV child. This
matter is so important for any future strategy of culture or
politics that it demands a headline prominence, and capsulated
summary:
WHY THE TV CHILD CANNOT SEE AHEAD