I remember the first time I heard this in 1975. One of my roommates was playing it loud. It was the summer before my senior year in college in a house in suburban San Diego I shared three medical school students. "The revolution will not be televised." It stopped me in my tracks. The message I got was: "What's important is NOT on TV, and what's on TV is NOT important." Gil Scott Heron. I felt a brick shattering the glass of the illusion of our time.. He spoke with the authority of a true prophet.