Affiliate Link – Saturday Morning Mind Control
Wow. This sounds so very awful that for $4 I’ve got to have a copy. Published in 1991, Saturday Morning Mind Control* caught my eye because of the cover and this very short description:
Colorful cartoons enchant young viewers and tease their curiosity, but Saturday morning programming plays havoc with children’s mental and moral growth.
That was enough to make me scroll down to the reviews, and it’s the reviews that pushed it over the top and led to me ordering the book. Seems as if the author had an agenda and had somehow selected cartoons as the evil to target and reveal to parents. I cannot wait to read this; I hope it’s intelligent and provides a strong argument against cartoons, because otherwise it won’t really inspire me to think all that much.
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I think this author may have been the guy who was behind the infamous “Turmoil in the Toybox” too, or perhaps I’m confused and they’re just of a similar mould.
Lots of Christians were worked up about a lot of things in the mid 80s-early 90s. Dungeons and Dragons, TMNT, He-Man…the list goes on. I have no doubt many had good intentions, but it made for some bizarre accusations being levelled at stuff that was actually pretty innocuous.
My parents were never huge on TMNT, but that had more to do with the violence and less to do with their theological implications 😉
My faith survived intact, and many church kids of my generation (and their parents) would consider something like this pretty out there — not representative of the mainstream, at least not in Australia.
I have a copy of this book and one other (might be the Turmoil in the Toy Box that Wolf mentioned). I was helping clean out some old books from my church library and these two gems were in there. I ended up with them although other than a cursory glance I’ve never paid them much attention. They just seem pretty out there and an interesting novelty response to things that adults just couldn’t understand at the time. Also, that cover is freaking wicked!
This guy was probably already preaching to the choir and didn’t have to work too hard. I look forward to your book review, though!