meaningful things Freak says

          Freak says a lot of really meaningful things throughout the book. One of the many things he says is that televiusion is the opiate of the masses and then he says that books are truth serums.
          It's actually quite funny because opiate means like, this sort of drug that has this duling/relaxing effect. So this just sort of gave me a whole new view on this whole "opiate of the masses" idea. If you think about it, it's actually true. Television is what everyone goes to when they've had a very bad day or if they just don't have anything better to do. Television's like a backup for everything. Nobody ever stops to think that T.V. doesn't really help us with anything in particular. It's all trash. But nobody really cares do they? Or maybe it's just that people know, but they're just too lazy to realize it. Televison is what people watch when they need to fill their mind with something---anything---to pass time. Yes, there are some advantages to T.V. but that doesn't really mean anything when the rest or what, like 70 percent of T.V. is trash.
          Books actually are truth serums. If you don't read, you don't figure out what's real and what isn't. In books, you get to choose what you belive. But on televison, they are practically telling you what to believe. Books would be meaningless/worthless if they were not read by people.They would just be letters, words, and sentences on paper if they were neglected and not read.
          These things that Freak said are related because they are both ways to entertain yourselves. But the thing is, most people would much rather choose television than books. I can understand why even though it's probably not the best decision.
          Freak strongly represents knowledge and it's true. He makes you think about all these little things. Little things, or concepts, that people don't really find all that important until they realize that it's gone.