Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 27 of 171
Seeing TV for what it really was
Someone turned on the TV. The colors were brilliant, images seemingly jumped off the screen, and there was a fuzzy 3-D quality to the newscaster. I instantly felt I could grasp all her psychological problems, those which led her to being on TV playing the role of newscaster. I could see her need for approval, her struggle with professionalism, and her naïve faith in the objectivity of the news she was presenting. My “perception” could have been a projection of my own struggles. Nonetheless, I felt that I was seeing her for who she really was. I felt an overwhelming pity for her, and wondered why on earth she played this stupid game. We changed the channel, and each show appeared more absurd than the next. I wondered if I was suddenly seeing TV for what it really was—an absurd circus of unbelievable stupidity designed to trap us in the dominant ideology. Was this not obvious to everyone?