QotD
"Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests." -- David Foster Wallace
I love this quote. I think I'm gonna start using it as ammunition against people who are rabidly anti-television, though -- because I feel you could just as easily substitute videogames, Internet forums, pulp novels... hell, even furry fandom. We do so love our swill. And meanwhile, even a medium as thoroughly pasteurized and commoditized as television will yield something capable of nourishing a soul...
I love this quote. I think I'm gonna start using it as ammunition against people who are rabidly anti-television, though -- because I feel you could just as easily substitute videogames, Internet forums, pulp novels... hell, even furry fandom. We do so love our swill. And meanwhile, even a medium as thoroughly pasteurized and commoditized as television will yield something capable of nourishing a soul...