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OUR CASUAL TREATMENT OF THE MEDIUM DOES NOT NECESSARILY INVALIDATE THE IDEA THAT TELEVISION IS SACRED, SINCE MANY PREVIOUS CULTURES, INCLUDING MEDIEVAL EUROPE, TREATED THEIR SACRED PLACES QUITE CASUALLY. ALTHOUGH TELEVISION IS OFTEN BANAL, IT IS UNFORTUNATELY TRUE THAT MODERN CULTURE WORSHIPS THE BANAL, NOT ONLY THROUGH THE DEVOTION OF TIME TO TV VIEWING, BUT ALSO THROUGH THE CELEBRATION OF HEROES SUCH AS THE CARTOON CAT GARFIELD AND THE CARTOON BOY BART SIMPSON.