content: I agree with the idea that childern are easily infulenced by the presences in the lives during early childhood. I just want to add that this isnt a phenomenon exculsive to the age of mass media it just shifted from parents influencing their kids to TV. For example if your parents were people who never questioned the government you are going to trust the government because the people you looked up to never did and any other persptive would be presented badly or in a biased manner. This line of reasoning after long enough would become so ingrained into the child that they would likely carry parts of this into adulthood. At that point it becomes a matter of socialisation versus nurture, sadly most people end up caving in to the popular ideology regardless of its validity because it makes their lives easier in the long run.  What changed is when the boomers got to the point where they had kids to raise and they just placed them in front of a TV. The media essentially took over the role of moral arbiter because of how much time they spent watching TV as opposed to spending time with their parents. The media then pushed lies and wherever else onto the kids bringing us to the moral decay we have now. Giving kids regular access to mass media especially when they are young is just handing them over to shlomo. The older generations can only do so much to control their past biases and debunk the lies. The way forwards is to either regain control of the media or just leave it behind. The latter is much easier since you just dont buy cable, make sure your kids are safe on the internet, and spend time with them. All of this is stuff that you should already be doing so I dont see the benfits of reclaiming a system that in its current state is dying.