“You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal.”

— Paddy Chayefsky

Network (1976)
Context: You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing, WE are the illusion!

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American playwright, screenwriter and novelist 1923–1981

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