Flutterby™! :

Hungry Mind Review has an interesting review of Leonard Shlain's The Alphabet Vs. the Goddess, Neal Gabler's Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, and Mitchell Stephens' The Rise of the Image the Fall of teh Word. I'm more and more conscious that language helps define how we think and how we problem solve. It provides us with the tools for symbolic manipulation that let us formalize what we'd otherwise have to depend on hunches for. I find it more than a little disturbing that we're losing much of that in our quest for less symbolic entertainment.