Today's post is about legally offering psychotic and hallucinogenic visuals (drugs?) to children. It is done everyday on TV, and in this case, PBS is the pusherman.  This Boohbah video is just the program introduction. Question:  Why do it this way?

If there is a drug epidemic in the world could it, just maybe, result from TV programming like this?  That is doubtful, of course... but also inconclusive. And so the question remains, why make this - is it stimulating education or profit?

Are the visuals in BoohBah any different than the oil-and-water-in-a-glass-pie-plate-on-an-overhead-projector variety used at Fillmore West to jack up that LSD dropping crowd spinning in front of Grace Slick?  Why not simply show kids everything available on TV... never mind, we do already.

Or how about those sweat-drenched days of ecstasy and poppers at the gay dance clubs, throbbing to the big-screen digital psychedelics projected onto every wall.  In a mediated – VISUAL WORLD - these mushroom induced, rave style, Bjork-ish phantasmagoric images could be fun, harmless, even educational.  But could these visuals also be seducing, or addicting, or stimulating and simultaneously numbing to toddlers?

Answer: Look around at how children are behaving today.  Even if there seems little connection, why offer such unnatural, sophisticated visuals like these to children?  Do we understand that any image can also be employed as a form of visual terrorism?  Why do we not openly ask these questions more often?

Consider visual literacy and grow better media communication.