The smaller the screen, the more critical the watcher

While watching the tv show 24 on my ipod, I become a lot more critical of the show. “Oh this is such a plot device by the writers!” “Oh the acting!” But I’m not like that as much when I watch it on my 13-inch tv at home and I’m even less like that with my 27-inch tv.

The smaller the screen, the more critical the watcher becomes. Take an ipod, you have the entire show in your hands. It’s in your immediate control. There must be something with the brain that has an overriding sense of control when watching tv on an ipod (or maybe I’m crazy). But when the screen gets bigger, we get more and more sucked into the show. Hence why we still see movies on the big screen. That screen just dominates us.

This is also an analogy for God in our lives. He’s like the most super-big-awesome being ever. We should be living our lives in a respectful fear of him. But many treat him like he’s really small or nothing at all, because we can’t see his face. But just look around and you can see all the incredible things he’s made and how he still works incredible creative acts today. He’s given us the biggest screen ever to see his show.