detest tube

You can be dying of intestinal parasites in some hut in the Amazon, and if your felt quality of immediate experience is superior, then you're superior to the guy who's being chauffeured around in an air conditioned limousine in some urban center somewhere. Our whole cultural delivery system denies this, you know?

So we have the concept of entertainment, and of drugs -- I mean, to my mind, television is a far more insidious drug than heroin, and that they're very comprable; they're cousins. The difference between heroin and television is that at least on heroin you can think your own thoughts.

-- Terence McKenna, Global perspectives and psychedelic poetics (speech at Esalen seminar)

(my transcription and punctuation)