Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
Modernity is the transient the fleeting the contingent it is one half of art the other being the eternal and the immovable.
So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.