They laugh in front of it. They cry in front of it. They are burrowing in, and television is their lifeline to the outside world. The message has created consumer apathy and the traditional messenger is not reaching the audience anymore. Why don't we all close our stores and go into real estate where we belong, because then all we have to do is collect the money.
Frequent flyers know where all of the exits are because they read everything in sight.
Now even this last bastion of literacy is coming to an end. Television runs non stop from coast to coast. Just before I landed, the head sets came off, the television sets disappeared into the ceiling and life became boring again. It was about the decline of newspapers in America. Wait, it sounded vaguely familiar.