Ideas have consequences - I don't think we realize this fully. What we sometimes miss are the ideas expressed through our popular culture - ideas that are normally expressed indirectly through story, visual presentation or song. They become, as C.S. Lewis said, not an argument, but an assumption that influences us to have this viewpoint or that on this controversy or that, sometimes without realizing that there is even a controversy present.
Whether it is breaking free from the control, manipulation and artificiality of an absolute God like figure as the road to true authenticity (as portrayed in The Truman Show), or the idea that the only reality we have is the reality we create as we write our own story (as in Stranger than Fiction), or in a thousand different other ways - we too often ingest ideas without contemplation - without thinking. And that is bound to have consequences for our hearts.
