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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. "Spudding Out," The Worst Years of Our Lives (first published 1988, repr. 1991).

Of "couch potatoes."

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