Social media is the great wasteland of the modern age

“Think of that constant drivel. The digital world can go on and talk about all of the things that it believes it’s accomplishing — social community, invent a word. But the truth is, you look at that every day, and what do you feel? You feel kind of depressed,” Wolff said.

He added social media does not spur water-cooler conversation like TV. “Nobody, except the people who are getting paid, talks about social media. Because there’s nothing to talk about,” Wolff said.

TV by contrast has escaped its 1950s vanilla roots to today feature the best creative visionaries and cultural currency possible. “If you haven’t seen Breaking Bad, who are you?” Wolff said.

Digital media and the Internet, by contrast, has become “black and white, good and evil, moralistic, reducing everything to the most simplistic level.” TV has gone the other way with edgy dramas.