snapping. To them, both Waco and the OKC bombing indicated a much larger group of “vulnerable minds [that] have increasing difficulty distinguishing literal messages from metaphors.” They noted an increased suggestibility found in children who ‘space out’ while consuming television or film media and pointed out that, by the time they reach adolescence, the average American has spent tens of thousands of hours in front of television sets, has watched as many murders and “engineered acts of violence” and has been exposed to hundreds of thousands of commercials filled with “arbitrary symbols of
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