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George Gerbner's cultivation theory said heavy viewers absorb the screen's map of reality. Catholics should hear the deeper warning: your feed is catechizing you. Mean World Syndrome, mainstreaming, and resonance are not only media jargon — they describe how repeated images form fear, desire, and moral common sense. The answer is not a scold. It is re-cultivation: Mass, Scripture, confession, sacred art, and real neighbors.