The pace of television's agenda disallows edification, understanding and reflection. Boredom always threatens and must be defended against at all costs. This apathetic attitude makes the apprehension and application of truth totally irrelevant. On the other hand, the godly art of truthfulness requires a sense of pacing one's senses and thoughts according to the subject matter before one. One must linger on perplexing notions, work them through, compare them to other ideas and attempt to reach conclusions that imply wise and rational actions.
Television thus becomes a strategic weapon in the arsenal of postmodernist cynicism and apathy.