It's difficult to know what to make of this one. Obviously produced for a select audience, it's the 10th part of a 10-part series created as a counter to Kenneth Clark's CIVILIZATION, with Schaeffer railing against the Enlightment and humanism as corrupting influences that lead society astray from the moral absolutism of The Bible. It's fairly insipid stuff, made only slightly more palatable by being so deadly dull, mostly delivered by Schaeffer straight-to- camera from behind a desk. The segment's one major excursion is to a sidewalk political clash, TV coverage of which Schaeffer uses to illustrate the seductive influence of modern media's imposition of narrative. Showing the riot from both sides, the film switches from one form of coverage - siding with the police and government authorities - to the other - sympathizing with rioters. It's a fairly effective illustration of some common concepts in media studies, ahead-of-its-time and surprisingly well rendered. This unfortunately makes it stand out all the more starkly against the rest of the film's pseudo-intellectual clap-trap, which finds Schaeffer, in the best crackpot tradition, torturing metaphors (one about a stone bridge is stretched miles beyond its breaking point) and lunging from one half-developed idea to the next. In the end, the film's early media studies detour proves to be its sole redeeming facet, meriting (just barely) a second star.