“The fantasy world of television and movies…have become a simulacrum of the real world”

The fantasy world of television and movies that emanate from a giant screen, TV panel, computer, tablet and smartphone have become a simulacrum of the real world – a parallel world that worms its way into our consciousness, replacing traditional morality with alien values disguised as the new normal.

Robert Avrech, “Confessions of a Shomer Shabbos Hollywood Screenwriter”, Jewish Action (Winter 2013), 16.