Four Arguments for the Elimination of TV I In the absence of Sacred (2 books )

Four Argument .....

A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous—to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes—that TV ought to be eliminated forever.

Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, "as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns."

In the Absence.......

In this provocative work, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western world's loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world, he says, has led us toward global environmental disaster and social disorder and worse lies ahead