A:  I don’t know, I haven’t studied it, because it is 
not of interest to me. It didn’t give me any insights. 
I think television is a cool medium and he had some 
understanding of that medium. But the most 
important insight that he had about television is 
that it sucks the brains right out of your skull, and 
that it is a non-educational medium. Television can 
be informative. It cannot be educational—no one 
ever got a cognant bit of insight watching 
television. They can become informed, and they 
can process that information later, but it’s a drug. 
When I’m all relaxed after I’m really keyed up, like 
I’m working at my computer—I’ve composed three 
or four good pages and I can’t fly off to sleep, I