It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
Television is simply automated daydreaming.
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
Reality TV rots people's brains.
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.