The Book is an inquiry into crucial issues of today. These issues need examination, for we are now all villagers in the global electronic village of the world of which social commentator Marshall McLuhan spoke 30 years ago. As McLuhan pointed out, the "potential is tremendous for the advancement of knowledge and understanding through television and electronics." However, he went on to warn, "the reverse of this is chilling." The reverse of "the advancement of know ledge and understanding" is "the retreat of knowledge and the diminution of understanding," also known as brainwashing, dumbing down and bubble gum for the mind. Both the advance and the retreat are happening...