There is no more disturbing consequence of the electronic and graphic revolution than this: that the world as given to us through television seems natural, not bizarre.
For the loss of the sense of strange is a sign of adjustment, and the extent to which we have been adjusted is a measure of the extent to which we have been changed.
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Two beautiful poems by Ted Hughes kind of sum up this idea of our separation from what is real and natural. They are 'Roe Deer' and 'The Stag'.
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