But although I had watched television in the same way many times in my life before, I found I could no longer watch it and not think. ‘Give yourself to the Screen,’ they had taught us. It was as basic as ‘Don’t ask; relax.’ But I could no longer give myself to it. I no longer wanted to keep my mind silent, or use it as a vehicle for disconnected pleasure; I wanted to read, and think, and talk.
