There's the television. It's all right there — all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we for then? We're consumers. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally ill. Fact, Jim, fact — if you don't buy things: toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers...
Without TV, it's hard to tell when one day ends and the other begins.
— Let's just leave the kids here.
— Here in the room? By themselves?
— No... with the television.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
— Well, you know the shows on TV?
— I don't watch TV.
— Yes, but you're aware that there's an invention called television, and on that invention they show shows?
Stop saying things, Bart. That's the TV's job.
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
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