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Books are different in that they rely on your own mind to interpret them. Even if they are degenerate, if you're incapable of picturing the degeneracy they describe then they can't affect you.
Movies and TV show you images without your conscious participation. Even videogames require your input, but movies just need you to give your focus over to them.
The lights on a TV screen, the pixels, are unnaturally bright, vivid, and change more quickly than you see in nature.
By its very essence, the machine will dazzle whoever looks at it.
Same principle for the audio, higher highs, lower lows, than what you hear out in nature. Leaving you wanting to keep coming back, to experience the sensations you can't find in the real world.
That dazzling addictiveness will be undertone no matter what the subject of your movie. They tried to put positive life lessons into older sitcoms and shows. Did it have an effect?