Hypnovision

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

So, if you want the truth, go to yourselves, because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. You're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear, we lie like hell. We'll tell you that Tinelli is an educational show to raise your children properly and that nobody ever gets cancer in Archie Bunker's house and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry, just look at your watch, at the end of the hour he's gonna win.

We'll tell you any shit you want to hear.

We deal on illusions, man. None of it is true. But you people, sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds, We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to believe 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. 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'm writing to you now...

TURN THEM OFF!