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"Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradictions and narcotized by technological diversions."
— Apr 13, 2025 07:48PM
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"Television does not ban books, it simply displaces them."
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"Television is, after all, a form of graven imagery far more alluring than a golden calf."
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"[of televised news] ...We have become so accustomed to its discontinuities that we are no longer struck dumb, as any sane person would be, by a newscaster who having just reported that a nuclear war is inevitable goes on to say that he will be right back after this word from Burger King... One can hardly overestimate the damage that such juxtapositions do to our sense of the world as a serious place."
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