TV is the same in Tallahassee as it is
in Panama City.
Bad.
Too many commercials, too much propaganda, too
slick a technology for the content. Too little unmediated, old-paradigm truth.
It's almost like the truth can't be allowed on there because it makes the falsity,
the slickness, look false, and slick.
When Life magazine did a spread
on William Carlos Williams as a working doctor they made him wear a white lab coat,
even though he didn't wear one, in his practice, "for authenticity."
Cool guy in the mall ordering a decaf latte.
Lower your mortgage payment,
increase the size of your dick. New, improved. Free. Easy. Learn while you sleep.
No bugs, milady. Lose weight fast. Grew new hair fast.
A prescription drug
for this, a prescription drug for that.
I lied to them, but I'm telling you
the truth.
Your president is not a crook.
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Q: This stale, former-hippie grumbling about TV isn't going to impress
a man drinking a decaf latte and reading Backpacker magazine.
A: And talking on a cell phone.
What do they talk about?
Episodes of Friends?
Superbowl commercials?