"cultural barbiturate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990, Paul Rutherford, When Television was Young, Primetime Canada, 1952-1967, page 423:",
          "text": "Why should so much of television be a cultural barbiturate, a tranquilizer for the ills and anxieties of our age?",
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          "ref": "2002, Marie Winn, The Plug-In Drug - Television, Computers, and Family Life, page 36:",
          "text": "Critics mockingly refer to television as a \"cultural barbiturate\" and joke about \"mainlining the tube.\"",
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          "ref": "2005, Robert Stein, Media Power, Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?, page 23:",
          "text": "For almost a quarter of a century, the medium has been used, in the words of Jack Gould of the New York Times, as a \"cultural barbiturate\" that \"kills time efficiently and economically\".",
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