"[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. [â€¦] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)"

-- Neil Postman

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“The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher...”
“It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful”
“The fact that gay marriage is legal but women don't have equal rights is so redonkulous that I think it just doesn't stand the light of day.”

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“At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.”
“I've always had a very broad taste in music.”
“The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again!”
“I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.”
“No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.”

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