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/^t/Summing up, it is obvious that what we witness at the twilight of this century is the mass TV addiction. The society consists of ninety five per cent TV maniacs for whom the small screen means everything and which controls every sphere of their lives. They are refuse containers in the sense that they are fed with all the rubbish, disposed of, and are too passive to object to it. They are also like opium-takers in the sense that they are constantly too drowsy to become aware that they have deliberately become such refuse containers and the only thing they do is to digest the rubbish.