Television is a strange thing; The seemingly fictitious scenes and characters imitating a life with the will that seems all too familiar to the passive surveyor; oblivious, he forgets such a world exists upon exiting the room, and then proceeds with the very act himself. It's a circular function, whose source can no longer be sought. One can't help but wonder what goes on when the television set goes off...
"the object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that however it finds you, it will find you under very weird circumstances. To live that kind of life..." (Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon)