Lessons from TV watching (and rabbits)

Permit me to appear to ramble for a second; I've come to accept that my MO in life is to stitch together quilts of data from disparate sources to create new insights into our complex world.

• First: I spend a lot of time thinking about the effects of technology on our cognition
• Typically, people who do so usually fall pretty quickly into "technology is ruining our brains", or " technology is helping us to leap forward"; I am neither. I'm an adherent to "technology is not good, nor bad, but nor is it neutral"
• As much as I like Cal Newport's writing, I find I don't have to completely unplug to be effective in the modern world (that's me, saying I watch TV:)
• The old saying, "No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher" applies in digital media as well as it does for me in real life.
• So, I found myself watching Netflix's Watership Down this weekend, thinking it was going to be a quiet peaceful narrative about bunnies in a field (don't judge; feel free to message me to get my position on why we live in a Baudrillard simulation of reality, where we have divorced ourselves from the normal quiet, peaceful natural state of the world, and we now perceive ourselves inaccurately to be in some storm of chaos, disorder, fear and violence).
• DON'T WATCH WATERSHIP DOWN EXPECTING QUIET AND PEACEFUL; It's basically Thunderdome for Bunnies.
• But in the midst of that, I heard a couple of great quotes ('every thing is your teacher', right?):

The protagonist leader was told he wasn't the strongest, smartest, quickest, or best story-teller; he was just the best of bringing out the best of everyone on his team

• Leader's speech at end: "I know that it will take time for me to earn your trust and hopefully your friendship. But it is a privilege for me to do so and to serve each and every one of you, both old and new. You have fought so hard to earn your freedom. But now you must fight to keep it. Because the battle for liberty is one which has no end and if we fall fighting, if we stop running, then at least we knew what it was like to run. I stand here not asking you to follow me, but to follow each other. Let's help raise each other to our strongest selves."
• Forgive me for posting random fictional bunny quotes here as a substitution for real leadership examples, but, every man a teacher, eh?