there drinking my coffee, it’s very clear to me that 
the Appollonian part of my brain shuts down and 
something else opens up, and it’s almost like a 
pure, non-critical—here’s where Neil Postman gets 
very anxious—it’s absolutely non-critical. It is a 
part of the brain that is pure observation. Pure 
observation without cultural preconception. This is 
why the very thing Neil Postman condemns—he’s 
saying that the person watching television has no 
critical sense whatever—is to me the real 
multiculturalism of TV. It seems to me we have to 
stop referring to TV as the idiot tube or it’s an 
idiot experience, or like couch potatoes, or all that. 
I don’t believe that for a minute. I find that I have