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Most media, though, are pure poison—TV, for
example, has all the effects of LSD. I don’t think we
should allow this to happen . . . I think we would do
ourselves a considerable kindness if we closed down
TV operations for a few years. If TV was simply
eliminated from the United States scene it would be
a very good thing. Just as radio has a most
malignant effect in Africa or Algeria, or China—in
highly auditory cultures, radio drives these people
nearly mad with paranoia and tribal intensity. TV, in
a highly visual culture, drives us inward in depth into
a totally nonvisual universe of involvement. It is
destroying our entire political, educational, social,
institutional life. It will dissolve the entire fabric of