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"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live."
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"I still ask myself why did you watched the film Paranormal Activity the all parts or the film "The VIsit" 2015. Both were home made and not big deal even stupid, you even watch football + you play one game over and over and over, you play stupid games + you watch stupid stuff and after all you still ask yourself why you are stupid. The answer is somewhere here, search it!"
"Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead."
"The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'."
"The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story."
"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."
"Social media was designed to SHARE what you're doing and who you are, not BE what you're doing and be who you are."
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"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible."
"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."
"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."
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