"So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business... We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion."
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Howard Beale (more quotes by Howard Beale or books by/about Howard Beale) |
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on-camera television newsman Howard Beale in Network (1976) by Paddy Chayefsky |
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Television, Media, Propaganda, Illusion, Addiction, Authority, Censorship, Coercion, Conformity, Free Thought, Information, Legitimacy, Political Correctness, Populism, Press, Psycho-politics, Racket, Skepticism, Suppression |
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