The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.
TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.
For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
It's difficult to describe the weirdness of speaking to a man who appears to be perfectly in control of his faculties, who can deliver off-the-cuff repartee, and yet who is actually utterly disconnected from who he is.
In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.
An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
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