Salon.com: I take it, then, you don't watch Fox News.
Gil Scott-Heron: I cannot afford to watch Fox News.
S: We shouldn't be waiting for a Gil Scott-Heron song about Fox?
GSH: I've got nothing to say about nothing.
S: As someone who was singing about TV addiction 40 years ago, I wonder what you make of the current technology, the way people are interacting more with screens than with other people?
GSH: What it does is it keeps people from reading, and therefore from learning. Screen life is very shallow, and it speaks to the fact that most people don't want to know themselves, especially the dark parts. So they learn how to push these buttons in a certain order.
But that's just your life becoming a video game, baby.
Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.
