TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
To summarize: everybody loves a fart joke, but only a few folks like Arrested Development.
David Foster Wallace (via craig)
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