..." So you watch the news broadcasts and get all this from ... "
" More than the news , Doctor Gil. All of it , and our watchers write condensed reports that ... You see , it's all TV out there - life , everything. Outsiders are spectators. They expect everything to happen to them and they don't wont to do more than turn a switch. They watch the late-late show and turn off theirs TVs. Then they go to bed to sleep - which is a form of turning themselves off just like the TV. The trouble is , their
late-late show is often later then they think. There's a desperation in not being able to recognise this , Doctor Gil. Desperation leads to violence. There coms a morning for almost every one of those poor people outside when they relise that life hasn't happend to them no matter how much TV they've watched. Life hadn't happend because they didn't take part in it. They've never been onstage , never had anything real. It was all illusion ... delusion. " ...
The Santaroga Barrier (1968)
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