>No, we just know from the time we are young that tv ISN'T REAL.
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Please, Tracy, this is the kind of confusion we should come to expect from people who wear wooden shoes and live in windmills and are so sexually perverse as to praise little boys for putting their fingers in dykes.
>>Well then, if Americans don't mind that their audiences are manipulated to behave like little children, then they also shouldn't mind being perceived as childish people.
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>>>They are selected. They are also guided as how and when to react (applause, get up, etc.)
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>>>>But more seriously, actors and guests are one thing. An audience is a different thing. I hope they are not selected too. I know there are people out of sight of the camera, who raise a hand when the audience is supposed to clap hands. But I hope they do not instruct the audience to behave childishly.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
