By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. read more
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly read more
We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
