All of those fantasy videos, cartoons, comics, Marvel, DC, Disney - alternate reality, pseudo-scientific philosophies, scenarios and nuances ... have a toll on the consciousness of a persons thinking and psyche.
They're not just entertainment.
Especially when it's fed to children's young minds so early in life and while a child's mind is still developing. They're minds are like sponges, learning and growing, and picking up the nuances of what is right and wrong; how to adjust to reality, consequences, etc.
Also, they're learning how to understand themselves and others, the norms of relationships and consequences, etc....
There's no study we can go to in order to determine these effects.
But do we even need one to know that what we consume will affect us?
Especially when these images and concepts are so pervasive in the culture and within our entertainment.
The Bible says :
"A student is not above the teacher; but everyone,
when he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher."
-- Luke 6:40
When the message of the culture teaches by way of continuous and repetitive messaging, communication, and subliminal indoctrination, it is helping form the consciousness of its society.
The continuous messaging affects the dynamics of a peoples ethics, cultural norms, religion, politics, etc.
And often times, those dynamics are found imbedded within the script of every one of those fantasy-based productions.
Today, more and more we can see social activism imbedded in most of these productions.
One of the consequences of this indoctrination and subliminal messaging is Nihilism.
Today's western world is pushing societies more and more towards Nihilism, the belief in nothing.
But the reality is that often times that "nothing" that is defined there isn't nothing at all but the denial of GOD. God is that SOMETHING that is imbedded within the definition of Nihilism being called nothing.
But the truth is that when God is rejected, there's no such thing as believing in nothing. Instead, one will start believing in many things that are not based in reality.
A delusional person isn't someone who stops thinking or stops believing in things but someone who starts believing in things that don't conform to reality. And it is a delusional person that rejects God.
"The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
-- Psalm 14:1
This is part of what a secularist world view produces. This is what our culture has been indoctrinating our society in, from public school to university training on into adulthood. This is pervasive in our entertainment and many other nuances, and it's dark, very sad, and there are adults walking among us indoctrinated this way.
This can sometimes produce what I believe is MENTAL ILLNESS. This erratic thinking often times manifests in depression, psychosis, delusions and anxieties.
Modern psychiatry may not conform to this progression of effects in diagnosing the cause of mental illnesses this way but delusional thinking can often times leads deeper into more pervasive symptoms of mental disorders.
How much more difficult could it be to help someone who has already been fully indoctrinated into false reality, and now suffering deeper delusional thinking?
