Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Notes From the Metaverse - By L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society
L. M. Sacasastheconvivialsociety.substack.com
Major new mediums change the structure of discourse. Books demand that you sit still and pay attention for long periods. Television’s demands on you are much different.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem, for television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations. The irony here is that this is wha
... See moreQuestions about how television shapes our culture have disappeared as television has become our culture. We rarely talk about television, rather what is on television.