Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world. – Astrid Alauda
Filling your heart with happiness is more profitable than filling your hands with riches. – Astrid Alauda

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world. – Astrid Alauda
Filling your heart with happiness is more profitable than filling your hands with riches. – Astrid Alauda
I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital. – Astrid Alauda
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life. – Barbara Ehrenreich