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  • so

  • rich little man with white hair died

  • what has that got to do with the price of rice right and why is that woe

  • to us?

  • because you people

  • and sixty-two million other americans are listening to me right. now because less

  • than three percent of you people read books

  • because less than fifteen percent of you read newspapers

  • because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. right now!

  • there is a whole an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't

  • come out of this tube

  • this tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime minister

  • this tube is the most awesome goddamned force in the whole godless world!

  • so, you listen to me

  • listen to me! television is not the truth

  • television is a goddamned amusement park television is a circus, a carnival

  • a traveling troupe of acrobats we're in the boredom-killing business!

  • so if you want the truth

  • go to god

  • go to your gurus

  • go to yourselfs! because that's the only place you ever going to find any real

  • truth

  • but man,

  • you're never going to get any truth from us

  • we'll tell you any shit you want to hear

  • we deal in illusions, man! none of it's true!

  • but you people sit there day after day night after night all ages colors creeds

  • where all you know! you're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here

  • you're beginning to think the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. you do

  • whatever the tube tells you, you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube,

  • you raise your children like the tube

  • you even think like the tube. This is mass madness! you maniacs!

  • in god's name you people are the real thing, we are the illusion.

  • So turn off your television sets. turn them off now!

  • turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off.

  • turn them off right in the middle of the sentence i I'm speaking to you now! TURN THEM....

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