Roland Barthes on entertainment

By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intelligence: it understands reality more cheaply.

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn’t work.

Gallagher1946–2022

• Comedy
• Television

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot1888–1965New York Post (Sept 22, 1963)

• Television

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959

• Television