I don't know exactly when I started WATCHING TELEVISION, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs HOLD privileged places in my memory. Without television, I surely COULD have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?
Read MoreIf we WANT to live freely and PRIVATELY in the INTERCONNECTED world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - PERHAPS above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.
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