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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.

We Older Women Who Know We Aren't Heroines Can Offer Our Younger Sisters, At The Very Least, An Honest Report Of What We Have Learned And How We Have Grown.

Creeds And Causal Systems Have Argued With Each Other For Millennia, And Even So We And Our Ancestors Have Managed To Live In A World Of Differing Opinions. Philosophical Disputes Don't Often Affect The Price Of Fish Or Wine.

I Am Not Sure How Many "sins" I Would Recognize In The World. Some Would Surely Be Defused By Changed Circumstances. But I Can Imagine None That Is More Irredeemably Sinful Than The Betrayal, The Exploitation, Of The Young By Those Who Should Care For Them.

This Is The Power Of The Powerful To Define, To Structure, To Say, 'this Is The Way The World Works.' It's Enormous Power. Among The Powers Of The Weak, I Think The First One Is The Power Not To Believe The Powerful.