Publisher's Synopsis
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone. (When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. A nation that forgets its past has no future I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility. We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.
