The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.