>>Channel Zero

>>Television is our stage and our anaesthetic.

>> Real life happens on television in preference to our homes and streets.

>>People resolve the relationships on freakshow, chatshow instead of in living rooms or beds or even goddamn bars.

>>And it spreads.

>>Rupert Murdoch beams his shit into Asia, English children are taught that Z is pronounced Zee by goddamn Barney, A purple dinosaur, and all of a sudden, world cultures become monoculture, the same conversations, the same clothes, the same show.

>>All turned to Channel Zero. >>And, all over the world, one by one, we quit fighting it.

>>We sit and we put down the book we're reading down and laugh at the arseholes on Jerry Springer, and snigger at Mathew Perry, get our news management for us by CNN, and suddenly we're like all the rest.

>>We're in cultural lockstep, taking holidays in other people's misery, asking for our stinking badges, dead heads nodding our phosphordot fixes.

>>Channel Zero