Pre-Packaged Deconstruction?

I like the idea of reading or viewing someone else's deconstruction, but not until after I have had a chance to think about it myself. I'm going to offer a viewpoint about this subject and I really want you to keep an open mind while I'm sharing my thought. I'm not bashing Hollywood or Disney, I'm just making a observation. The premise is that there is a vast majority within the most recent generation that have lost their ability to really use their imagination. This is what I meant when I said, "I like to have a chance to ponder or think about a topic prior to hearing or viewing someone else's POV" because now their thoughts become yours or at least in some ways bias yours. This is also the point about the loss of imagination... many of the students I know and work with are so accustom to having the visual provided that they almost refuse to imagine what the scene looks like in their mind. Case in point I set the stage for an activity that involved a historic piece of audio (a radio drama that forever changed radio regulations) by telling the students the customs of the era (circa  late 1930's) and the lack of TV, some cinemas were starting to show "talkies," but radio or live entertainment dominated the "American Lifestyle." I further described what they were about to hear was not presented as one of the normal radio dramas, but rather it was being portrayed as live orchestra entertainment. Orson Wells' presentation of the "War of the Worlds," in its unedited original October 30, 1938 version, which failed to generate any excitement in fact it was met with several "I don't get it" remarks. This caused me to really quiz the students on how they really think about stories when they read or what they're thinking about when listening to others tell a story. The general consensus seemed to be they don't read and they don't listen to stories. Moreover they cited the most recent remake from Hollywood as the visual cues for what was really going on and would never have believed that what they were listening to could scare anyone much less cause panic. I know this seems so far off topic, yet I would ask a simple question in relation to the Qwest / Alltel videos, "how many of the details discussed did you pick out?" be truthful. This is the point when media dominates the visual texts and overrules the power of imagination then what happens to original thoughts. Is our ideology compromised because our only understanding comes from some elses' vision, like when you hear the word princess... do you conjure the visual of one of Disney's young maidens? or do you have your own original vision?
I find that after watching and reading I could offer a response, but my response is filled with the bias of what the deconstructions offered. I might even say that the Alltel deconstruction seemed to slant the deconstruction in light of her own biases, which either garner support for her viewpoint or build animosity to refute her points. Either way, I feel an observational bias, which I also believe is a contrived motive designed to win support. So, I could easily agree with the commercials and everything in the deconstructions, but that's not what keeps coming to mind.
In the beginning of this class we talked about and read Neil Postman's speech calling for the education system to equip students with a BS detector (mine is alarming quite loudly), which was a good segway into introducing us to this great educator. I had already been introduced to Mr. Postman in two books... "The End of Education" and "Teaching as a Subversive Act" both are great reads, but the "End of Education" offers the premise that generations of today (written 1996) have lost the intrinsic value to education. The computer was entering the home and schools, which gave way to greater access to information with less of a need to learn and carry that learning everywhere you went never knowing when it was going to be useful, but knowing you had it when you needed it. This sounds somewhat hokie, but in the information age in which we live most students today argue that if I need to do math I'll have a calculator and no need to learn how to do math, just how to input data (sound familiar). There's no need for me to learn this or that I'll ask "Siri" and she'll tell the answer. There's no need for me to read the book and let my imagination wander where the author is leading me... I'll wait for the movie. I know it sounds cynical, maybe even surreal, yet I believe that as a facilitator of education I can and do make a difference by trying to instill the need to seek the "rest of the story," in my students. The endeavor is to equip students with the tools they need to become thinkers and learners for a lifetime.