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Rudolf Steiner compared the effects of cinema-going to those of a drug. Perhaps he would have included the entertainment side of television, the reading of light fiction, too. But if we analyse the pleasure which such attractive distractions yield, we shall find that they let us get away from the ego.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 259