Entertaining ourselves
Neil Postman’s book, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, is shockingly relevant today. He strips away the facade of mainstream media revealing its dark side and four decades later it’s all very recognizable as applicable today. Not only is it prescient, but making his points about the quaint legacy of now old school media makes everything very easy to follow, as well as demonstrating that today these same effects have kicked in orders of magnitude more so. Here are a few highlights but there is so much more in there.
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