“What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.”
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
David Foster Wallace
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