television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that … - Elizabeth Janeway

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I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

Elizabeth Janeway

television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses. ' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.

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