¶ Television: Third Parent
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RBF Definitions
“… Even the seemingly most steady population is not steady at all, it is all drifting. We have mobilizing world man, he is not vagrant at all, and the degrees of freedom of man have been increasing and his capabilities have been increasing-- he knows about his whole world and each child that is born is born in the presence of less misinformation and in the presence of more reliable information. Particularly the young world with the television, are told about the whole world on the hour, right in their own home. And they hear much more from their third parent (which is what I call the television) than they do from their own parents. Their parents talk about the local things-- local and visual-- and the third parent tells them about the whole world and all the problems of all the world, and is the first to tell them about the inventions, what man can do. Everything extraordinary that man can do, the third parent tells them about that. So they go the the third parent and they find that he has good diction, so we find the young world thinking ‘world,’ it is the first generation of man to think ‘world.’”
¶ Citations
- RBF Address THE HABITABLE CITY, 14 Oct. '69
