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In this culture I will not speak for any other we are watchers of television. We sit alone or huddled together in darkened rooms staring at the tube. (Big Screens are on their way but today is still the day of the tube.) Despising it we call it the boob tube the groove tube the idiot box but we still sit and stare. The TV set is a cultural product a technological achievement of the twentieth century. Yet the images it purveys have primeval roots: Cro-Magnon Man homo sapiens sapiens would have been a TV fan.
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Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins, The Honest Politicians Guide to Crime Control (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1970), pp. 64–65. 2 From some obsolete almanac: as usual things be gettin worse.
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Ziff, P. (1984). Homo Sapiens Televisus: A Sociobiological Meditation on TV. In: Antiaesthetics. Synthese Library, vol 174. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0739-8_7
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