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Gil Scott-Heron was wrong. The revolution WAS televised. It just didn’t look like any revolution we ever saw so we didn’t recognize it. It happened broadcast by broadcast. It started with the smirking humor of the Simpsons and Seinfeld. Undoing institutions, breaking down moral barriers until the sacred was banished and the immoral was enshrined.

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