GE 1996-7 Season 3 Episode 8: Paulitorial
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
PAUL: What do we know about
ourselves ?
What do others know about us ?
What is there to know ?
What is the price we pay to
know about others, not even
considering the price we pay
when others try to know about
us.
Why would anybody want to know
anything about us anyway ?
(where I buy my shoes or what
magazines I read)
And then when they do find out
about our, well, I hesitate to
say “deepest”, or “darkest”,
how about best-kept. When
they do find out about our
best kept secr... buying
habits or desires, they prey
on us in a cold-blooded,
conscience-less atavistic grab
for nothing more significant
than our wallets or our credit.
They merely take advantage of
the unwary us. We
involuntarily provide them
with information about our
weaknesses, our human
failings, our foibles, with no
concern about what that does
to us.
They don’t care about who we
are, really. They don’t want
to know us in any of the
socially accepted non-Biblical
ways.
Then they go on their merry
way, looking for another bozo
who believes in the free-
market, and in chic and style
and vogue, and in home-buying,
leaving us behind, vacant,
used, and scared to death to
ever buy anything or read
anything or watch anything
else ever again.
“Good-bye, sucker,” “hello,
shopper, what can I find out
about you that will separate
you from some of your money ?”
A guy phoned me last night at
home trying to sell me
Valentine’s Day cards.
SIGH