i never learned nothing in school.
you must have learned to read.
how do you figure?
i seen you reading a book the other day.
not me, i wasn’t reading no book, must have been somebody else.
he means a magazine, he’s from the woods, these country folk call a magazine a book.
so you was reading a magazine - with pictures in it.
yeah, i was looking at some pictures. everybody likes to look at pictures.
why is that, do you think?
i don’t know, they just do.
the world is a picture, ever think of that? just look around, there’s a picture. so what do you have to look at a picture in a damn book for?
i don’t know why. why don’t you tell me?
because you have to pay for the book, that’s why. they get you because you have to pay for the book.
books are cheap, compared to other stuff. and folks just leaving them lying around, or throw then away, so you can just pick them up.
not like television.
television used to be free.
well, you still had to buy the television. and maybe pay the electrical bill.
how do you figure?
televisions are electrical.
they are? i thought just lights were electrical. people say electric light, nobody ever says electric television.
you have to plug it into the wall, don’t you? that makes it electrical. and if you don’t pay the electrical bill, it won’t go on.
is that right? help me out here.
what he says is true. refrigerators are electrical too. and washing machines, if you have one of your own.
i used to go to the laudromat.
you probably washed your clothes in a creek. a muddy creek.
be all that as it may, you used to be able to just buy a tv and watch it. now you have to buy the tv and pay for all these damn subscriptions. so they got you coming and going.
tyranny, that’s what it is.
and capitalism.
don’t start.
you can still just buy a tv and watch it. some things, anyway.
some things is right. nothing good.
just shows for the ignorant.
like us.
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