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Our history will be what we make of it. |
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and there should be preserved the kinescopes of one week of all three networks. |
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They will there find, recorded in black and white and in color, evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. |
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We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent. |
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We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. |
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Our mass media reflect this. |
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But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, |
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then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. |
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Ah, yes, it may be that the human race is doomed, never to learn from its mistakes. |
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We are the only animals on this globe who periodically set out to slaughter each other. |
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for the best, the noblest, the most inescapable of reasons. |
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We know better. |
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But we do it again and again in generation after generation. |
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It may be that our empire, too, is doomed - like all those that have gone before it, |
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to continue to spew and waste its best blood on foreign soil, |
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no matter what we say or do in this place, or think, or believe, or have learned from history. |
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But, thank God for us. |