的确，我希望您能说服您，基于印刷的认识论的衰落以及基于电视的认识论的伴随的兴起对公共生活产生了严重的影响，我们在一分钟的时间里变得更加愚蠢。
(Indeed, I hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.)